"Granny - Just edit your Registry!" Re: hoax or bad taste jok e by Redhat's CEO?

Cannon, Andrew Andrew.Cannon at nnc.co.uk
Wed Nov 5 13:27:21 UTC 2003


Linux is not ready for the home market. It's that simple. Yes, it has got
good quality applications and it is more secure than Window$, BUT and it is
a big but, the vast majority of M$ users use the computer to play games at
some point. How many of them, do you think, want to download 2GB of ISO's,
burn the disks and then have the technical savvy to know what a partition
is, let alone what size each one should be?

Yes, they can buy the CD retail pack, but what 'typical' pc user is going to
want to spend £50+ on a second operating system, when the one that they have
got runs their games, is able to go on the internet and prints off their
letters with the minimum of messing around?

Linux has got a long way to go before it can approach M$ in the 'usability'
stakes.

Just my 2p.

Andy



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