Linux desktops need more than just a pretty face
Linux has a serious problem to overcome before it can it even begin to make even tiny dents in Microsoft's desktop dominance and the problem is usability.
This is not to say that Linux is no good. To the contrary, as a machine level operating system, as far as I can tell, it's fantastic - much better than Windows. I have been playing around with the Breezy Badger Ubuntu Linux distribution for about a month now. I installed a copy on my youngest son's old hand-me-down Pentium II and, after a few tries, succeeded in networking his computer to our wireless LAN. Since all he uses the computer for is playing games and internet browsing, it works like a charm and is incredibly stable. He can leave it on for days on end and it never locks up and requires a reboot like when he was running Windows 2000.
I also installed Ubuntu on a second networked computer in my home. I configured the Evolution email system with identical accounts to those on my Outlook system and all my recent emails suddenly appeared, there were even some that for some reason my Outlook system seems to have missed (which disturbs me somewhat)!
So what am I bitching about then?
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