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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Not sure of this.
The dominant distro will not necessarily be the best, or the easiest, or whatever; I think there will be a split in two main segments, Linux workstations/servers perfectly happy with opensource, and workstations/servers in need of commercial software.
For the first segment, almost any distro is ok.
But if you are an engineer and need Autocad or, better, Catia, or Microstation, or whatever Cad will be ported to Linux, then you'll *want* a distro on which it is tested; you'll go to a system integrator and say "I want a Linux machine to run Catia"; he will give you (example) Suse Professional and Catia.
The same applies when other softwares relevant to a large base of users will be ported (medical/commercial/you name it).
And the balance will be influenced also by what distro natively supports more low-level user programs (let's say I want to use something like Bryce, or all the cool programs for windows for which no counterpart exists), be them multimedia/web/games.
Let's say you are a fresh user, and know that AAABBBCCC Linux works flawlessy because you download Sound Editor from the net, and it's ok, then you download a game and it works there "just click", then you download a pirate copy of Photoshop (example) and it works there, you don't really think about going alternative: AAABBBCCC *is* Linux.
Try to offer a different Windows, maybe better, but it doesn't autoconfigure soemthing, and you can't just "click and play", and be sure very few will choose it.
Well, that's my 2c, but consider I'm using windows XPPro right now after 7 years of Linux, and despite having some trouble with it, I'm shocked at how easy it is to work with *if* you are a poweruser (if you are not, God help you)).
Lorenzo
it will be the one *certified* to run commercial high end software software