IBM Desktop Linux Pledge, One Year Later

Blue writes "It's been more than a year since the bold announcement from IBM that they planned on dumping Windows for Linux throughout the company. InfoWorld is reporting that not all is well with IBM's desktop Linux push. What went wrong?"

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fud

[sum.zero]

the article reads to me like anti-linux/anti-ibm fud.

they seem to me to be creating a story where there isn't one, oversimplify the issues and infer that ibm is hiding something.

oh no! ibm isn't migrating fast enough! linux is not ready for prime time! ie is a must!

nothing to see here...

sum.zero

Re:more than insightful

[aichpvee]

As an animator I can safely say that Linux is the most productive operating system (it's not the computer, moron) that I have ever used. I think the main reason you don't find lots of people in those fields using Linux is because they are either a) stupid (lots of artists are not so very bright), b) told how big and bad and scary it is, or c) there is a particular piece of software or niche category of software that is not available.

The first isn't really going to be able to be solved. Just look how many "artists" can barely run their macs which are supposed to be so "user friendly" though I have never found them so.

The second is fixed by dingbats like you keeping your holes shut when you're too ignorant to talk from experience.

And the third will get there sooner or later, though there really is very little with any market size that isn't available.

If the software is available (which for the vast majority of people who aren't playing games, it is), Linux beats both mac and windows for productivity by huge margins.

Though feel free to flame and troll about how much Linux sucks and has no software, it's just so precious when you windows and mac kids get all defensive.