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Linux on the Tipping Point
Reader stormcoder wrote to mention an article on Enterprise Linux I.T. in which the author posits that even though Linux is built on a legend, the reality of Linux outstrips even the myth. From the article: "..the fact that Linux has traditionally been compared to Microsoft's Windows brand products and not the other Unix variants will most likely lead the general public to perceive all this as Linux sailing on to new horizons while Microsoft stalls out. This perceptual shift should totally reverse the previous mainstream view that Microsoft and Intel were somehow at the forefront of high technology computing -- thereby pushing Linux over the magic edge of a social tipping point."
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Great theory, until the kid at the Future Shop tells the otherwise-computer-ignorant person "Macs suck".
People fear the Mac. They don't buy into claims that it's any easier to use, they don't believe it doesn't get viruses, they fear that their existing hardware and software won't work, they don't understand why it doesn't contain a Pentium, and in the case of the Mac Mini, can't understand why you would buy anything but the fastest computer you can afford.
Plus, Apple's going out of business, the Mac is the new betamax, it's a cheesy decorative toy so it can't be powerful, they won't be able to bring the files home from their Windows machines at work, and 1-button mice make baby Jesus cry. Macs are good for graphics and that's about it.