Is Linux Desktop Better Than Windows? (LinuxPlanet)

Is Linux Desktop Better Than Windows? (LinuxPlanet)

" The bottom line is that for most people a computer is an appliance. It isn't maintained, it isn't monitored, it is just used until it breaks in some way and then it is replaced."

Bull's eye!... Its only proverbial justice that the malware is sickning the OSes of the propagaters of that "appliance style" BS mantra.
The bad thing about that is that Open Source dont really sell any new hardware... i mean the actual "status quo", in the hands of a "white Box", perhaps in the majority of cases illegal, is very handy to "sugest" a replace of old systems to common users, ignorants of the facts that perhaps more than 90% of the cases is not the hardware that has failed, but bugs or crap code in the OSes, the drivers or other software...

So it's no wonder that a large porpotion of the hardware industry is not angry with a Microsoft that seems to continuing to piss all over on their users, and on their IT partners...the "status quo" has its conveniences!!...

Perhaps all this is a cause for the poorer involvement of the "gross" of the hardware industry in the Open Source world (Its not closed proprietary Nvidea or ATI drivers that change that).I guess that might be a "feeling" that the domination by Open Source systems will reduce sells of hardware,...

...perhaps is my wrong opinion, perhaps is just a feeling... but one thing is certain; without the commitment of the "gross" of the hardware industry, the Linux Desktop will never really dominate, and neither will the Linux Server, because server "always" has been hostage of the desktop ( Microsoft has showned that).

So in the above picture, the only way out for a real Linux domination is to partner with that hardware industry... perhaps with the convenience of a broader "Open Source" driver model from the BSDs/Darwin to the Linux... Because IBM & Cia cant do much more than reduce the gap to Microsoft.