Complaining about Windows Vista is a national past time on Internet forums these days. Windows Vista "costs too much," "has onerous product activation," "requires too much hardware," etc. These complaints are often followed up by a very simple boast: "I'm just going to switch to Linux (or Mac)."Read it all over here.
But in today's landscape, how viable is that statement? Is the threat to switch to Linux an empty one, or is it entirely possible? Linux on the desktop has been viable for years, especially for programming gurus who can solve their Linux problems by simply writing new software. It also seems to be viable for “Mom and Pop” end-users who just want a machine to write letters, send email, and browse the Web (although, admittedly, a guru will probably have to set it up for them).
30 days with nothing else but Linux
Posted on Tuesday, March 06 2007 @ 11:04 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
A HardOCP author decided to spend 30 days with Ubuntu Linux to find out if it's really a viable alternative to Windows for the consumer: