Re: windows future

["Elazar Broad" <elazar () hushmail com>]

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On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:34:27 -0400 Paul Schmehl
<pschmehl_lists () tx rr com> wrote:
> --On Friday, August 28, 2009 13:40:28 -0500 Rohit Patnaik
> <quanticle () gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > To be fair, Linux has come a very long way in that regard. I
> purchased
> > an Asus Eee 900 with Linux preinstalled, and everything worked
> right out
> > of the box. Flash, Java, OpenOffice, the works. It was a
> vindication of
> > my view that the real obstacle to Linux on the desktop isn't the
> user,
> > but rather the OEM.
> >
> > With low-cost, low-power netbooks becoming more prevalent, OEMs
> are
> > finding that the cost of the Windows license begins to take up a
> rather
> > high percentage of the overall cost.  Therefore, many are
> preinstalling
> > and preconfiguring Linux. At the same time, consumers are
> finding that
> > application incompatibilities don't really matter for them,
> since the
> > Linux equivalents are able to handle data coming from a Windows
> box with
> > a minimum of fuss.
>
> That's good news.  Once updating issues are resolved and Xorg
> becomes as good
> as Mac and Windows graphics (it's almost there now - it just
> doesn't quite have
> the "pop" or "wow factor" of Macs), the obstacles to migration
> (for the
> consumer) will be availability and the knowledge that an
> alternative exists.
> At that point I think we'll see Microsoft's market share begin
> eroding badly.

KDE4 is quite close, but it definitely requires a bit of
tweaking(or that might just be Slackware)...
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