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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Friday, November 21, 2003Home users jumping to Linux? Yeah, rightThe total number of Linux users may have surpassed the number of OS X users some time ago, but that doesn't mean Apple has anything to fear in the home market: Despite massive improvements over the past few years, Linux is still fairly unfriendly, widely incompatible with the applications people really want to use, and is inscrutable when anything goes wrong. In these areas, of course, Mac OS X works very well: It's attractive, performs reasonably well, and includes awesome digital media applications; and if you want, you can even install Microsoft Office. But don't tell any of this to LinuxInsider, which recently published a bizarre article claiming that home users--you know, grandmothers and the like--are moving to Linux in droves. Even Red Hat's vice president, John Young, doesn't think Linux is ready for consumers. "We don't have the perfect substitute for Windows," he said John Young. "But for customers who don't require their users to run the full range of applications that comes with Windows, we have a good substitute. In terms of my mother being able to use it, I think that will happen over the next couple of years." The LinuxInsider article is almost insane, even adding a perfunctionary "Microsoft declined to comment for this story" as if that was ever going to happen. But aside from a single example of a mother of five moving to Linux (because her husband supports it at work), it doesn't offer any evidence to support its claims. That's because it's not happening. [ Posted at 11:56 AM | Permalink ]
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