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Old 01-04-2007, 04:06 AM
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Re: Why Linux Will NEVER go Mainstream On The Desktop. (Wonder how Roy could have missed this one?)

In comp.os.linux.advocacy flatfish+++ <flatfish@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=140
>
> This reads like it came right out of COLA!!
>
> (Note the 1 percent desktop user base figure.)
>
> "But hardware support on Linux is good - all my stuff works!
>
> If all your hardware works, great. Congratulations. But ask yourself these two questions:
>
> * How much extra effort did you have to go to to get it to work?
> * Did you research your purchase in advance to make sure that it would work?
>
> If you answered "yes" to either of these questions then you are willing to
> go to more effort than the average home buyer [...]



If you answered "yes" to the first question, you are probably a windope.


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