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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The RPM system in linux is alot better then the current windows system.. Its alot easier to double click a RPM to install it.. Anyway, like someone said, there are install systems for linux (install openoffice for instance).
After being blown away by how impressive Entrance is in Enlightenment 17 (www.enlightenment.org), and by news I've heard off the freedesktop team, I'm also convinced the graphics of linux will easily exceed Windows by the beginning of next year (believe me.. u WANT to try entrance, words cant even describe it.. Never seen anything so amazing).
And in terms of Driver Installation, my project, http://driverondemand.sourceforge.net I'm convinced will solve that (PCMCIA and PCI already work in it.. and USB and everything else will work within 2 weeks). I just got a server up for it and after exams, will spend 1 or 2 days dedicated to filling up the database with the most common hardware.
I'd also expect firefox to be stable by the end of this year, and many new things such as gdesklets being integrated into gnome pretty much propelling Linux past windows...
From what I've seen.. Everything is under control