Re:Be afraid... be very afraid (Score 3)

Unfortunately, if Linux really wants to succeed as a desktop OS, I think it'll have to dumb down to this level. Most people are not that smart, particularly about computers. Most people have no urge to develop their skills in this area - they'd rather do whatever they do and have the computer as a friendly, transparent, no-brainer assistant to that. Thus the success of Windows and Macintosh - one a testament to the power of marketing and monopoly, the other of why it's called human interface design and not computer interface design. I'm less sure that Linux really should become a commercial desktop OS. Usenet went commercial, and look what happened to it. Maybe the development/server/hacker niche is where Linux should remain - an OS that can do anything, one that users graduate to when they begin to acquire a deeper knowledge of computers. Here's a little bit of flamebait: perhaps the correct destiny of the Linux OS as an advanced development/server/hacker system has been hijacked by those who would see Microsoft taken down at any cost? =DP= ...Amiga faithful to the end.