Linked by Mystilleef on Mon 29th Sep 2003 06:30 UTC
Linux will become ubiquitous in the year 3000. Okay, that was a horrible joke. Linux is just a kernel, the engine that runs an operating system. By itself, it is essentially useless. Kernels shouldn't be discussed or noticed by normal users. And as such when providing these users with reviews, previews and "professional" opinions, computer consultants, computer reviewers and computer journalists should not spew headlines like "Linux is not ready for prime time", "Linux on the desktop by XXX", "Linux to takeover Windows", "Linux is not ready for desktop" and so on.
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I accept that Linux distros aren't quite as polished as OSX or XP. But the linux desktop is far better than win 95 or OS9. The move from Office to OpenOffice is trivial compared with switching from WP5.1 to MS Office.
Installing most linux distros is far easier than installing windows 3.1 from a stack of floppies.
Linux is good enough (for many users) now and rapidly improving.