Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market

Tibor the Hun writes "According to Gartner and IDC, Apple now has between 7.8 and 8.5% of market share. While those numbers are not astonishing, they are not insignificant, and their growth does not seem to be slowing down. Will the pearly gates of acceptance open up for them once they reach the magic 10%, and will that have a positive effect on desktop Linux adoption? Hard to tell, but it's good to see that normal people (not just us geeks) are choosing to go with a different OS, rather than staying with the headache-inducing Windows."

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Re:Normal People?

[je ne sais quoi]

First, anyone who can't get Windows to run decently should be turning in their geek card already.

I argue that it's actually impossible to get Windows to run decently no matter how much of a geek you are because the software is written poorly and is designed to annoy the user. Even if we take you at your word about getting windows to "run well", meaning installed as the code is written, it's not that I can't do it, I don't want to. This is because it's a POS operating system. So, from my point of view, these aren't "cheap shots" in the introduction but a statement that largely agrees with my experience.