Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 07:02 UTC
During the majority of my time working with computers, Windows was the operating system of choice. Reason being, it's all I've known. In 2002, I took a college course titled "Linux Administration" which entitled me to a few cd-roms of Redhat 7.x. While this course was nothing more than a few extra credits for me, I fell in love with Linux and went through the entire textbook a week into the class. It was a nice feeling to use something "different" than what I was used to.
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Linux does need to be made far easier to use for the casual user.
My mum has recently set up a Yahoo email account, (don't laugh) and surfs travel agents sites. She knows how to start the pc, load up ie and surf... Thats all. She does not install software, and don't think she will ever.
I could not imagine her having to search for RPMs or even running Synaptic.
However, this is the type of user that Lindows are targetting Linspire towards. I tried it out and it is really simple to use, and update. I think if my mum ever starts complaining about Windows crashing etc, that I will install Linspire on her pc and let her try that for a while.
It does not have the latest versions, and click n run might not have every package that is available elsewhere... but I think it is just the ticket for joe casual.
For my personal machines, I use mostly Debian because I love Apt-get, but lately my "main" machine has had Mandrake 10 on it. So far I cannot find a fault with Mandrake 10.