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(When) Will Linux Pass Apple On The Desktop?

Posted by timothy on from the my-little-3-percenters dept.

EisPick writes "A column posted today on Slate ponders projections that Linux PCs will pass Apple in desktop market share next year. Will Linux do to OS X what it already has done to Tru64, Irix, HP/UX, AIX and Solaris and emerge as the only viable competitor to Windows on the desktop?"

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  1. Not gonna happen... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am not even going to RTFA ...
    The mac desktop is millions of times easier to use, better looking, and generally nicer than linux. Never will linux desktop be better than Apple's.

  2. Re:Will Linux do to OS X what it already has... by JamMasterJGorilla · · Score: 0, Troll

    Viable to geeks and freaks. I still can't see giving Linux to my mom. Mom, you should update to the latest kernel, you can finally get that firewire camera to work if you download the latest GCC and compile this and that form here and there.

  3. Yeah... by pimpybra · · Score: 0, Troll

    APPLE CAN EAT A DICK

    1. Re:Yeah... by Klimaxor · · Score: 0, Troll

      but can your dick eat an apple?

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    2. Re:Yeah... by Trelane · · Score: 0, Troll

      Aaaagh! Flashbacks... to... Illuminatus... trilogy! Gaah!

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    3. Re:Yeah... by DaBj · · Score: 0, Troll

      Remind me to never go after you should we ever play "bobbing for apples"...

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      "GNU's not Unix....it's Linux" / Kami "kokamomi" Petersen
  4. Re:furthermore... by smallpaul · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you paid for Puma (10.1) "just in time" to see Jaguar (10.2) released, then you are a fool. The release date of Jaguar was announced at MWNY more than a month ahead of the actual release in late August. Unless you had some dire need that made it worth paying $129 for a month's use of Puma, you should have waited. Don't blame Apple for your failure to budget your money well.

    Sure, blame the consumer. That's the way to win friends, new customers and repeat business.