Linked by Kristofer Jarl on Fri 23rd Jul 2004 05:38 UTC
The smell of newly purchased stuff... So, there I was, Hauppauge WinTV board in hand, Mandrake 10 installed and ready to rock! Little did I expect that it would come to this. But first things first. 
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Linux gets as easy as Windows, and reasons, ihmo, are mainly two:
1) people are accustomed to paradigms when it comes to work on a computer, and Windows, like it or not, is *the* paradigm, and for sure this won't change anytime soon (other versions on win will change it perhaps, but not Linux).
2) fairly self-explanatory... try to explain to AverageJoe that he has to open a terminal, tar+bunzip2 a file named flash-install.tar.bz2, then read the terminal, type in manually *where* his mozilla installation lays just for the sake of having Flash installed... No, we're not there yet.
And this point 2 is also representative of the general installation difficulty and dependency hell so many people run into continuosly... install Mozilla under Win is a breeze, why can't it be at least as easy in Linux?
Linux software is very good (sometimes amazing), and simply not comparable to professional software for Win, that's a fact: no professional CAD (Catia is still no released afaik), no 3d Modeler (blender is great but low end), no Professional Video Editing Suite, no serious Sound editing/Mixing whatever program... list gets long.
Linux is great, but until the big dollars decide to invest on it porting the really great apps to it, it's still a 2nd class desktop system.
Or, better, a first class average desktop system, and that's what everybody's trying to sell: desktop systems which can be used like Windows in corporate networks filled up with average joes and anns who use what they are put to work with.
I have been on this train for the last 8 years, and since then, Linux has grown enormeously, but never really got any nearer Win (but for the server market, that's it)
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