Linked by Ben Mazer on Mon 26th Jan 2004 19:52 UTC
Lately, there has been a "Why linux isn't ready for the desktop" article every 3 days. Most of the time, these articles originate from a lack of understanding or acceptance of the open source system. I'd like to try to address some of the common arguments against linux here, and try to help people understand why linux probably won't be on your desktop for a while.
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My wife uses it and my daughters use it. I don't have worry about spyware, I don't worry about viruses, I can fix their problems remotely (which hardly ever happens compared to the daily click start crap, right click the icon crap and tell me what it says crap.) My duaghters can use gaim to talk to her friends with out having to deal with the crap that clutters the desktop that AOL and others spew.
I had Windows XP on my home PC because of the mtyh that it would be easier for them to use and get whatever they needed done. The reality was that it was easier for them to put crap on the PC and break things. Which made my life harder by having to go back and patch, clean, reinstall remove what ever was giving them grief. And usually with them standing over my shoulder asking when I was going to be done because they had a paper to write, and email to respond too or research for homework.
Not any more... I use Fedora Core 1 and now I have almost zero complaints....I did not have to retrain them to how use this complicated and cumbersome Liunux system. My 37 year old wife, my 12 and 9 year daughters seem to be of exceptional intelligence because they picked it up quickly and I rarely have to help them....
I do give them the option... I have two hard drives on this system and one with Windows XP and the other with Fedora ...
But you know what ? They never use XP ... I dunno why ... Maybe you enlighted folks out ther can explain this phenomenon.