[GRLUG] Perceptions: Is Linux a suitable desktop platform?

David Pembrook david at pembrook.net
Sat Oct 4 18:03:22 EDT 2008


Tim Schmidt wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:33 PM, David Pembrook <david at pembrook.net> wrote:
>   
>> An interesting article on perceptions about Linux. The author polled
>> both pro-Linux and pro-Microsoft people and compared their arguments.
>>
>> http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT9186091276.html
>>     
>
> I've never found these articles relevant.  Linux has been in use as a
> 'suitable desktop platform' since Linus started hacking on it in 1991.
>  If some people don't think it's 'ready', that's their loss.  The rest
> of us have been, and will continue to innovate, improve, and have fun.
>
> --tim
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If your using it you know why your using it.

Where I find it relevant is in properly presenting Linux to others and 
encouraging its growth and its eventual use as a mainstream desktop 
environment.




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