Linked by Joshua Boyles on Wed 19th May 2004 20:08 UTC
By the time Longhorn comes out I'm sure everyone will be sick of the subject "windows vs linux." Will longhorn finally destroy that pesky linux and mark another decade of Microsoft's monopoly, or will the underdog come out with a stunning upset and send a multi billion dollar company to it's grave?
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Well, 1. people aren't going to change the OS on their decade old machines any more than they are going to upgrade them. Their old software does what they need. 2. Linux's minimum requirements aren't that low. The minimum requirements for Fedora and Windows XP are quite comperable. As Linux progresses toward Longhorn's release date, it's minimum requirements will increase to match Longhorns unless it fails to match features. 3. The author suggests a minimal GUI. He then compares this to Longhorn with all the bells and whistles enabled. You can turn off some of the bells and whistles in Longhorn for one. For another, you just can't compare Windows to a non-Gnome/KDE window manager for Linux. There are many nice window managers for Linux. Many of them are faster than KDE and Gnome, but those are the two that are used because they have the features.
The fact is that Linux has an oppertunity here, but not the one that he is providing. Sure, there are some geeks that will keep their old equipment using minimal GUIs and such, but that's going to be a small subset of the current Linux group. The oppertunity that Linux has is to catch up to Windows in the areas that it lacks. They aren't huge gaps. Small things like making package management palateable to novices.