30 Days With Ubuntu

[Jonathan Carter]

From: http://consumer.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTI5OCwxLCxoY29uc3VtZXI=

"""
Complaining about Windows Vista is a national past time on Internet 
forums these days. Windows Vista "costs too much," "has onerous product 
activation," "requires too much hardware," etc. These complaints are 
often followed up by a very simple boast: "I'm just going to switch to 
Linux (or Mac)."

But in today's landscape, how viable is that statment? Is the threat to 
switch to Linux an empty one, or is it entirely possible? Linux on the 
desktop has been viable for years, especially for programming gurus who 
can solve their Linux problems by simply writing new software. It also 
seems to be viable for “Mom and Pop” end-users who just want a machine 
to write letters, send email, and browse the Web (although, admittedly, 
a guru will probably have to set it up for them)
"""

-Jonathan