[KLUG Advocacy] Re: a user leaves

[Mike Williams]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:00:02 -0400, advocacy-request@kalamazoolinux.org wrote:
>
>Well .... some interesting comments from both the author of the
>article and from the people on this forum.
>
>I have used Linux off and on since the early 90's.  It was not until
>RedHat 7.x that I felt there was a really good replacement for me to
>use Linux as my primary desktop (well also Mandrake 7.x).  A lot of
>what he says makes a lot of sense in the time frame that he was
>talking about.  Also, some of the stuff still is not fixed.  For
>Linux to invade the home market a fair number of things do need to
>change.

>From what I've seen Linux still doesn't hold your hand much.  For most power-users that's fine, but the average user will not be willing to argue with the OS to get a piece of software to run.  They don't even willingly fight with Windows to get a new piece of hardware installed, as shown by all the stores that offer installation services.  Also, the game market is driving home PC sales now.  As long as Windows is the biggest seller, games will continue to keep it that way.  In the corporate market, though, I can see possibilities.  StarOffice / OpenOffice is pretty good now, and can at least challenge the heavily entrenched MS Office.  


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Mike Williams, knightperson@zuzax.com on 07/16/2002