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Microsoft Goes After "Career Pirates"
Stony Stevenson writes "Microsoft has filed 21 lawsuits in US Federal courts as part of an effort to stop those who continually pirate its software. The suits span 14 states and target people and businesses that have allegedly sold pirated copies of Microsoft software. Eight of the suits target companies that Microsoft refers to as 'repeat offender software pirates.' The eight firms had already been sued by Microsoft for selling counterfeit software."
I was curious about Mac and it's products, but that was short lived until I entered the Apple store and saw the bloated prices.
Good for laughs, good for posing, bad for me ! Linux is still my favorite .
Whooooooosh
Probably because you can't do as much on Linux no matter how much hardware you throw at it. Fro the average computer user Linux is not a the most basic viable option. There is not enough POPULAR, supported software available on Linux. You can't really play anything but the most basic or old 3D games on Linux.
Support for the OS and for the apps is non-existent or very expensive, unless you want to go to some online forum where a bunch of amateurs spend more time showing you how smart they are and how stupid you are. The typical answer to a question being that "man is your best friend" or some such nonsense. I am VERY computer savvy and man pages are of little to no use.
So yes, you can have a 3D accelerated GUI on Linux with less hardware. But no matter what you run you won't have a diverse set of popular and well supported applications. Sorry, good idea that is amateurishly implemented.