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I am still amazed
I read the article and I agree entirely with the bulk of it. Perhaps I should have stopped at the article itself, but Ijust had to read a bunch of the replies, many of which tried to argue for/against Linux/Windows almost as if they had not read the article.
Should you switch to Linux? The answer is yes, and the naswer is no. It's that simple.
For me, I have been playing with linux for sometime, even used it for a whole semester when my dual boot system made a left turn and I was unable toboot into windows. For that whole semester, I used Mandrake Linus to read my mail, to research (mostly using my browser), and word processing. It worked not the same, but MUCH better than windows did.
Now I'm making the switch to Linux because 1) I'm a geek, 2) Linux does what I need it to do, and eloquently as well and 3) I am tired of the direction that Microsoft is taking with licensing and DRM and I want am alternative.
But, clearly, I am going into this with my eyes poen and my expecatations grounded in past experience. If everyone did this, I would not be surprised to see the desktpo share for Linux to be closer to 10 per cent, ubt too many people want to leave Microsoft more than they want to move to Linux, just as was said in the article, and this will lead to disappointment 99 times out of 100. A shame, as most of those users would probably embrace Linux under different circumstances.
Still, Linux is here to stay, and where it goes from here depends entirely on who uses it, what it's used for, and whether or not it's recognized for it's potential rather than the state of Linux today.
It could go far... or not...
Pierre
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