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Originally Posted by Burg
I never spoke to someone who wants to go back to W after getting to know Linux. Yeh sure, you will have to invest time to learn certain things, same as you had to learn W, but there is thing different: Linux is fun! And it's a delight to work with good software.
And there is a big Linux community willing to help you out anytime.
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Well you have one here...
I have 'played' with linux (and BSD) since slackware 3.2 days... every once in a while I will put a distro back on or upgrade my last dual boot.. each time theres more functionality but then I need to load my blue tooth card.. or DL my phone cam pics.. or utilize media PC function (DRM being a 'killer' app exactly as it sounds !!!) or...
I agree in the server arena it is leaner, meaner, and deserves its merits but in the desktop I feel there needs to be a unification effort !!! In fact despite its security faults Linspire (ex lindows but all that lobby money buys you a fair bot of dubious trademark protection) is the most grandmother friendly install I have done in a while..
I just never have been able to keep it my main boot partition.. each time you try market saturation pulls you back.. photoshop CS2.. drivers.. etc...
For the desktop domination I feel that linux has to really focus on providing a unified desktop experience.. the problem with choice is everyone has differing tastes (a camel was a hourse designed by commitee).. To break the nieche it needs something like 'tiger' or OSX to be made wintel compatible.. that would shake the OS wars up...