cold water on linux

[Michael Hipp]

Joel Hammer wrote:

> I have been using lindows for a couple of years. It is the
> most user friendly linux yet. ALMOST everything downloads
> and works easily from the warehouse. If lindows can't
> get average users to use linux, forget about linux on the
> desktop for another 5-10 years, maybe in our professional
> lifetimes.

You're essentially saying that Lindows is the best of the best. Which 
just ain't so.

Of the people who are or would seriously consider a move to Linux, very 
few of them would give even passing consideration to Lindows. Once 
cluefulness begins to set in, the problems with Lindows become too 
obvious. Lindows has some good ideas, to be sure. But the end product is 
too full of compromises and poor decisions.

Lindows way die or Lindows may live but Linux will press on.

You may not have noticed that Novell and IBM are converting thousands of 
desktops to Linux. And there are many others. Somehow the passing of 
Lindows is unlikely to change their plans.

Michael