

Company is standing up to Apple's patent claims







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RE: Here's hoping that...
By Luticus on 3/18/2010 1:21:13 PM , Rating: 3
The reason Linux isn't mainstream right now has nothing to do with it's advantages over OSX or Windows and everything to do with what it still lacks.

Yes Linux can accomplish nearly every task that Windows and OSX can perform; however, it's still to difficult to setup and maintain for the average user. Windows installs perfectly on my older laptop and everything works instantly with little to no effort at all (installed from a Windows disc and not from a recovery disc). Linux (Debian) requires wireless firmware, the video driver doesn't work perfectly out of the box, software upgrades have been known to be a pain to install, in my virtual machine upgrading xorg and KDE broke my virtual additions sending me back to a console only OS until i extracted and reinstalled the guest additions (something a non-tech user would NEVER be able to do). Upgrading xorg and xserver on my laptop caused my keyboard and touch pad to stop working at which point i had to reconfigure my xorg config file with a back up I'd made that I'd never have been able to make if i didn't understand chmod and the command prompt. Not even to mention the absolute MESS of distros out there which is a complete nightmare for the average user to understand.

Any sane, good tech person will tell you that Windows is great for beginners because it's fast, stable, and easy to learn, and excellent for techs because it provides adaptability and a decent level of customization and all the tools you need to tweak and tinker while still remaining fairly easy to use/learn...

For the same reason the WII is winning, Windows appeals to the most demographics, and because of this... for now it is firmly the most used and (in my opinion) best desktop operating system to date.

