Comment Re:How true (Score 2) 38
Hey, leave the iMac out of this, what did it ever do to you???? After all, it fills in the blanks for that very very large segment of the population that Windows also tries to fill--- all those people out there who not only don't know about computers, but don't want to know. (yeah, it's scary, huh?)
Problem is that Linux, no matter how easy it becomes to use (take a look at Caldera 2.2) or how mainstream it tries to be, is still somewhat dauntiung. I am not saying that there is anything wrong with this, but to the technophobe it can be intimidating to suddenly let go of your entire operating system for one that was put together by hobbyists. And what if something goes wrong? Fact is that most people don't know and don't want to know about their computers. After a little while, a time that seems to be getting closer everyday, the people who DON'T think that it's fun to stay up all night playing with their computers will start buying machines with Linux preinstalled. But will they go out of their way? Not a chance.
More importantly, do we want them to? Probably not.
Problem is that Linux, no matter how easy it becomes to use (take a look at Caldera 2.2) or how mainstream it tries to be, is still somewhat dauntiung. I am not saying that there is anything wrong with this, but to the technophobe it can be intimidating to suddenly let go of your entire operating system for one that was put together by hobbyists. And what if something goes wrong? Fact is that most people don't know and don't want to know about their computers. After a little while, a time that seems to be getting closer everyday, the people who DON'T think that it's fun to stay up all night playing with their computers will start buying machines with Linux preinstalled. But will they go out of their way? Not a chance.
More importantly, do we want them to? Probably not.
