leirbag28 wrote:
Unfortunately Linux Will NEVER gain alot of ground NEVER! the simple reason being that the programmers DO NOT undertsand a simple concept: Not everyone knows UNIX! nor are they interested in being forced to use super strange commands or the shell to accomplish something. Even their "DownLoad Wizardz" are hard as hell to use.
What you don't understand (similar to M$ btw) is the difference between the OS and its applications. And knowing Unix or not is just a question of what you started with. There are people out there who don't know a {bleep} about Windows, yet they're Unix experts because it was the first thing they used.
Nobody is interested in the fact that Ubuntu ccannot come with MP3 and DVD codecs as standard (stupendously ridiculous). its like that stupid Gif copyright crap that was going on a few years ago.
If you're not interested in licenses, patents, intellectual property and its impact on society, then really Linux is probably the wrong thing for you. You'll never understand it.
golem wrote:
Yes I agree with you. We have no choice. You have to live in the world with other people and other people use Windows. I have Ubuntu as well and its clever and I like the philosophy but its not mainstream. The sad fact is most people want a computer to be like a microwave or other consumer good, they just want it to work with minimum effort.
Windows claims to do that, but it really doesn't, and I doubt it ever will. It just hides the problems from the user behind a fancy surface, making it hard to troubleshoot anything if something goes wrong. It will continue to leave people with their systems being infected or compromised, their data being stolen, and the "fun" of periodical reinstalling. My bet is that it will get even worse with Vista, because Vista is trying to take away even more control from the user.
