Linked by Ryan (aka Aurex) on Thu 10th Jun 2004 19:55 UTC
Ever since Microsoft started publicly outing Linux with their "Get the Facts" campaign, I have seen numerous articles and studies about the TCO (total cost of ownership) of both products in a head to head manner. However, I have yet to see one article discuss the TCO for home users and small businesses. I have thought long and crunched many numbers to devise a conclusion to this years old debate and I think the results are obvious... Windows is way more expensive than Linux.
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as i've posted before, my 44-year-old mom has had no problems with Suse 9.0. she had no problem surfing the web, downloading pictures for the kids, opening them in gimp, and printing them on her printer. i just installed suse and set up accounts, i didn't set up the printer, she did, and she even figured out gimp-print.
the only people who think linux is hard are either a) the ones who haven't used it or b) the one's who thought they could jump right into a more geek oriented distro like debian or gentoo and have all the luxuries of a graphical OS.