Linux on the Desktop

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Taylor
> 
> <WORDY RANT>
> <SNIP>
> > I don't really feel like our goal should be to put Linux on 
> every desk
> > top.
> > I'm happy to cede Bill Gates the bottom of the heap, the cheap
> > businessmen,
> > the idiot home users, the ones who really should be using 
> Windows, not
> > Linux.
> > For the evangelists out there though, the need for expert 
> support is still
> > the stumbling block.
> </WORDY RANT>
> 
> The nice thing about Linux is YOU can feel that way while thousands of
> other programmers are working to make it a viable desktop. 
> Nobody controls
> it. Sweet, eh?
> 
Yep. That said, I use Linux for my family desktop. While there are things
that are harder to do in Linux. Others are easier. Some things are not harder
but take more time. Others less. This is my own experience. There are really
very few things that I have trouble with:
1) How to print photos at photo size resolution,
2) Sharing my printer over the LAN (something I never tried in M$).
Everything else just seems to work for me. but then maybe my needs are few.
I'm not a gamer, because if I was that would be *all* I did. ;)
I could easily put together a system for someone to use as a desktop.
It all depends on what is needed. There are lots of places using Linux
now as a desktop. So to say that it just isn't there is just FUD. Sure
it is nowhere near as slick as M$, But let's be fair M$ has been doing it a lot
longer and they have a whole pile lot more money to throw at it.