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How to Kill Linux (PC Magazine)How to Kill Linux (PC Magazine)Posted Feb 25, 2005 20:13 UTC (Fri) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)In reply to: How to Kill Linux (PC Magazine) by hathawsh Parent article: How to Kill Linux (PC Magazine)
-Linux desktop is superior in many ways. Right out of the box, the Linux newbie gets: I believe people can by a PC with Windows, IE, Outlook and Office preinstalled. - lots of games, including educational games You're joking. You can't really compare the preinstalled Soko-Ban and Mahhjong with the vast amount of games you can by for Windows. And it doesn't really matter if it's not preinstalled, because the installation is usually "Put CD into drive, click Accept, click Next, click Finish, then click on the new desktop icon". Not to mention that it's not easy to get decent 3D performance and stability out of Linux...
- graphics, video, and audio editing Most desktop users are not interested in these topics apart from fetching pictures/videos from a digital camera and upload to some website.
- utilities
- secure remote access and management People who need remote access-like functionality will value stability over the fact that what's preinstalled on their system. Let's face it - most of the applications on Linux are clone of some Windows applications so I can't see people switching to Linux purely based on applications - they've got the originals.
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