Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th May 2008 16:20 UTC
It's one of those catch phrases that never really seems to die out. Wherever you look in the operating systems world, at personal blogs written in crummy English, or at high-profile quality websites, there is bound to be someone, somewhere who used it. Even I, myself, used it in articles in a far and distant past, and I'm not particularly proud of it. "Ready for the desktop" is no longer acceptable - in fact, it's on its way out.
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2006-01-19
For games, wouldn't Windows be an infinitely better choice?
Yes - and no. Some people don't need or even like the arcade games you usually get from the big game vendors, they like the small card, logic and puzzle games better. If such a person crosses your way, be nice and give him some Linux distro and be sure to install every game in that distro.
But probably the pre-setting of the app she discovered on her system was right for her, and probably the only way she found out something like internet radio even exists was to find the application in her menu and getting curios.
One size does seldom fit all, and it is a pitty that in a usual computer shop nobody asks you which operating system you prefer, and give you hints towards the strenghts and weaknesses of each system in case you know nothing at all.