No os war, just looove, good fun, dirty keyboard, everyone’s happy, even Mr N00b

Now THAT is some kind of cross platform solution

And the suse was turned down everytime because of the menu that doesn’t seem to make many people happy.

The only one that still has linux on her laptop is my mother in law, but then she’s buying a macbook as soon as the new line comes up. And she said she uses less her laptop since the switch ( don’t really know why yet, i don’t like getting to see her so much :p )

Now, my only advice to people is “buy a mac and you’ll get unlimited help, or sorry i have no time for this”, that proved quite efficient for 3 people already with a 4th ( mother in law ) coming soon.

Now for the command line problem, i’ll say that yeah it quite comes from me, i mean the graphical use of linux proved annoying to me ( less stable than my mac, so why bothering ? ) so, as they only are servers, i just love to use them only in command line. And each time they prove to be fantastic!
My media system in the house is linux based, i do some electronics, again linux based, all the server softwares are too.

What i meant was more “Linux’s biggest strenght is it’s command line usability” but then i guess the ubuntu guy only surfing isn’t all excited by my theory right

Yet again, i think the os war is something a bit strange, like making a war between suvs, coupés, saloons, it’s not quite the same, atlhought they still are cars.

What should be the subject is : why the hell are you using a suv to race on a track ? or something of the sort

Well I’ve had good luck converting windows users if I first start with their applications. Generally I start with replacing Outlook with Thunderbird. Then Internet Explorer with Firefox. The MS Office with Open Office.

Then you change the OS under the applications. Since they still have the apps they use, the conversion is much less traumatic or scary. So far when I take it slow I have 100% success rate.

As for all the comments about needing to use the command line in Linux, well if you want to stay in 1999 forever go ahead. Plenty of distros have reached the point where you don’t need to know any command line. Just look at the all the success the Walmart PC and the Asus EEE had delivering a simple to use Linux to the masses. It will continue to grow. Mostly because people are cheap and free is good.

I agree with you on the “the average windows user doesn’t know how to do sh*t on it’s comuter” statement

The thing is that i have failed making those average users using a ubuntu or suse ( the only two i’ve tried ) on their laptop instead of xp or vista, so linux isn’t really the answer (some have hapilly switched to mac, the others still use windows )

plus, is it being clever knowing something everybody knows ? i mean the windows equivalent to do so is far less know and therefore you have to be muh more of an expert to know them.

The fact that linux demands knowing command lines is it’s main problem, preventing it from common usage

ok, the only good reason i see for windows is gaming/pro software
but then the only reason i know for linux is computer science/geekery/web/dev/hack/
the true computer novice and non-gamer should just head to the mac, instead of windows, that’s the only thing i see possible

One last thing, i use the three, an really, of course windows is a pin in the ass for comp guys like us, but then i still appreciate playing on it, playing with my linux server and the everyday use on my mac, let’s keep the war low and all enjoy the choices

the only windows problem is thoses plain assholes that download porn all day then get viruses then complain that windows is unstable after buying shitty hardware and installing all crap possible and comming to YOU for fixing …