<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">This obviously has the potential to become a religious argument, but the answer has to be it depends on what you use your computer for. A lot of people just do email and browsing, which is why the Chromebooks are selling like hot cakes. Vista was a disaster and Windows 8 is not being well received because of the radical change in the UI and the increased hardware requirements. Gnome 3 and the newer KDE ticked people off for the same reason. Apple hardware tends to be more expensive. I've been installing XP and Linux Mint on a lot of people's older hardware because it lets them continue to use it. I run Fedora 20, although I have Linux Mint on a stick. While some of the multimedia support could be better, programs like Chrome don't crash as often and the memory management is better if you tend to push the limits. Linux does suffer from needing more expertise, but how many Windows boxes are sitting in people's houses unused because of mis-configuration, trojans, viruses, or bloatware? There is still more software for Windows, but between VMs, Wine and the occasional reboot to Windows 7 to play a game, I am pretty happy on Linux. It is kind of neat to have a VM on one monitor, a remote desktop to a remote server, a shared drive between all 3, X-windows clients and terminals to other servers. It works for me. Fred On 01/29/2014 09:09 AM, Ramachandran Chidambaraiyer wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CAG+tHms_TLR6Dg2t+2ZSq6oAPV5Eo73EodhNmDoooK9D7uHiNg@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> While discussing about Apple and its OS for Mac and Iphone, it was mentioned that Linux has failed as an OS for Desktop. It includes Ubuntu also. Do you agree with this. Ramachandran <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> </body> </html>