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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ok, one last time. the purpose of linux is NOT to "thwart microsoft", the purpose of linux is to write good software using an open development model.
once you understand that, other things fall into place too. microsoft is irrelivent, this is a UNIX clone. if you are a UNIX user, linux is extremely user friendly. serviceing the windows crowd is a relatively new thing, desktop linux is an extremely new thing. look at it from that light, and suddenly its no longer a barely usable desktop os, but an extremely usable enterprise grade server os.