[Coco] [Color Computer] The evolution of the Coco..

[Mannequin*]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 08:32:00 -0600
"Glen VanDenBiggelaar" <glenvdb at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Linux is everywherw in the tech world, but nowhere in the real consumer
> world.

I understand the gist of what you are posting here, and I'm not trying to make
converts or the like, but this statement isn't correct. I'm using Linux
full-time, and have yet to successfully compile my own kernel... I wouldn't call
myself a tech, just someone who knows more than the average user. My father, who
is, for the most part, a total computer illiterate, is running Linux for at
least half of the time he is using his machine for business and personal use.
(He's still bound to AppleWorks for Windows... Something we can't get him off
of. *grins*) My wife, who pretty much only knows Windows, used Linux for 3 years
before we upgraded her laptop and threw XP on it. The *only* reason she is using
XP now is because she wanted to use a few things that weren't available yet for
Linux. (Application wise.) Need I go on about the companies that have switched
to Linux for their uses, etc.?

The truth is that Linux is being used in the "real consumer world." You just
aren't seeing it. I'm not saying that you should switch, especially when you
have probably spent a good portion of money on your Windows software and such.

To me, this issue is about a hot as the Mac / PC issue. Mac users are always
trying to convert the "PC barbarian" to the enlightened path of the Mac. When I
used to work in a local Mac store, most often than not, when a PC user walked in
to take a gander at the Macs, they would walk out without one. Why? Because, I
used to tell them that if they have already spent a fortune on Windows software,
then it wouldn't be in their best interest to have to spend even more on a
new computer and new software which he probably already has on his PC. My boss
didn't quite like it, but I never got fired, either. (Actually, I almost did get
fired when I bought my first PC... But that's a whole other story.)

Anyway, I've rambled off topic long enough... Just thought a little education
was in order. :)

-M.


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