I just installed Mandrake 9.1 the other day and was completely shocked at how easy it was to install compared to my initial taste of Linux (Slackware) several years back. With each version, it's getting easier and more user friendly, and that's the only way Linux will ever have a chance of taking over the Windows market. It's just amazing how many pieces of full featured software are available for free, and you have *so many options*. It's way more customizable than Windows is...I think it's completely possible, and I was talking to my friend the other day and predicted that within a few years, Linux will be tough competition against Windows. Just look at what's happening...HP is bundling Linux with their systems. While HP doesn't make that great of computers, I view this as a BIG step. I think one of the major hurdles that is keeping them from capturing a big market today is game compatibility. I'm a big gamer myself, and after trying Mandrake 9.1, I'd be willing to go fulltime Linux if all my games worked perfectly in Linux. But alas, I will continue to dualboot. Someone needs to do a social experiment and put 10 Linux newbies with computer skills ranging from total newb to pretty technically adept into a room with 10 computers running Mandrake 9.1 and see how they make out. Hey, a new reality show!
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...does it run Linux? Oh, wait...
So now, when the martians start selling nuclear power to terrorist nations, planets, or galaxies, we can invade them, take it over, and call it even!
Plain and simple, the NES. No console will ever top it!
I just installed Mandrake 9.1 the other day and was completely shocked at how easy it was to install compared to my initial taste of Linux (Slackware) several years back. With each version, it's getting easier and more user friendly, and that's the only way Linux will ever have a chance of taking over the Windows market. It's just amazing how many pieces of full featured software are available for free, and you have *so many options*. It's way more customizable than Windows is...I think it's completely possible, and I was talking to my friend the other day and predicted that within a few years, Linux will be tough competition against Windows. Just look at what's happening...HP is bundling Linux with their systems. While HP doesn't make that great of computers, I view this as a BIG step. I think one of the major hurdles that is keeping them from capturing a big market today is game compatibility. I'm a big gamer myself, and after trying Mandrake 9.1, I'd be willing to go fulltime Linux if all my games worked perfectly in Linux. But alas, I will continue to dualboot. Someone needs to do a social experiment and put 10 Linux newbies with computer skills ranging from total newb to pretty technically adept into a room with 10 computers running Mandrake 9.1 and see how they make out. Hey, a new reality show!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...! OK, how's that for my first /. post? Do I fit in?