Linux-vs-Windows (was Re: Augury and reading ...)

[Kenneth Brody]

John Esak wrote:
> 
> >
> > The underpinnings are just fine.  It's a dearth of applications software
> > that's the problem.  That's vastly improved in the time span
> > since 1993, or
> > even 2000.  But it's still the major obstacle to full-fledged adoption in
> > anything but server and embedded markets--meaning the desktop, mainly.
> 
> This is _exactly_ what I said to Tony in the FP Room today. As a server...
> no problem, I'm a *nix guy from the word go... as a desktop, though... I
> don't see it happening in any big way soon. I'm not against it, I just don't
> see the option yet.

I've heard of people putting the Windows-look desktop on Linux, along with
a copy of OpenOffice, and drop it on a "Windows-only" person's desktop, and
they didn't have any problems running it.

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