Linux the cool factor
I have a bunch of designers at my job, and they all carry around an apple. No not the fruit, you know the vastly overpriced and over-hyped electronics brand. These guys think they are so cool with there notebooks running extremely expensive designer software. I think this is somewhat of a problem with Linux. While Linux is actually a lot cooler then apple, it's not perceived by enough people as being cool.
Most people see apple stuff as cool, and Linux as complex and for geeks or highly technical people.
Linux users know this is not how things things really are, my grandmother can use Linux and the coolness of apple is only marketing hype. While I must say apple sometimes builds very nice looking hardware. You pay a lot for design with apple, it's absolutely the high end of the market.
I believe if more people knew how cool you can be with a Linux system, it could convince more people to use Linux and open source. Therefore I'm planning writing a series of articles on Linux coolness.
I'll kick off today with compiz:
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