[LINK] Apple's Intel Desktop Move Threatens Linux Desktop, Longhorn

[Deus Ex Machina]

Glen Turner [glen.turner at aarnet.edu.au] wrote:
> I think we're approaching the point were people can have that faith.
> I've had Ubuntu Linux running on my mother-in-law's machine for about
> two months (I got sick of de-lousing her Windows machine every time
> I visited).  The only complaints were: the lack of a Shockwave plugin,
> mplayer-plugin doesn't do neat visualisations like Media Player;
> the OpenOffice menus were comprehensible but different.  That is,
> complaints about minor stuff.  Nothing like "I'm a Windows user
> and I've no idea how to do this under Linux".

if you are a ford driver are you going to switch to holden just because
they match the specs? no.

its not good enough for linux to just copy and expect wide spread defection.

Vic