I just recently, out of morbid curiosity, clicked a link to a report that upgrading to Windows XP was something like 66% cheaper that going to Linux
Any chance of a link?
As far as upgrading is concerned, I've found that the typical upgrade of Windows involves safeguarding my data, formating the drive, installing the new version, reinstalling all the S/W I use (and after about 20-30 restarts) and lots of tweaking and configuration.
The same process is followed after windows being on a machine for four months or so (lol, joke), which is where our company makes most of its money (the average user isn't able to backup,install,tweak as they don't know how)
As I said above, I've found Linux to be much LESS frustrating than Windows on the whole. The only place Windows might be a little better is in the area of support for bleeding edge hardware.
Don't 100% disagree with you there. Im having problems with susefirewall2 atm, and finding documentation for it that's clear and consise and not wrote for a software writer with a iq of 180+ has so far proven to be fruitless.
As has been stated before, that is only because most of the H/W manufacturers don't see Linux as any more than a tinkerer's or computer geek's OS ("Let them write it themselves" seems to be their attitude).
I don't think that's just the hardware manufacturers pov. The linux distro writers seem to have the same pov. The majority of the linux howto's are wrote by users, not the people writing suse/debian/mandrake/whatever. Yeah they may have chipped in, but most of the time its left to the end user to be clever enough to figure something out and document it. That's the idea of open-source software in my opinion, but unfortunately it makes for a sketchy approach to support. Also in my opinion Linux is designed for tinkerer's/computer geek's as it is nowhere near ready for mainstream distribution, nor will it be for a long time in my opinion. People just aren't keyed up enough in whole on computers to be able to understand linux. Its one thing to have windows pop up a message saying "the system has recovered from a serious eror - sending report", and a completely different level of "brown stuff" for linux to say "kernel panic". To a average-joe-bloggs user the linux message means jack diddly squat. Maybe in another twenty years time, when the youth of today has grown up and are the mainstream users will they turn to linux, having an understanding of computers that most adults today are scared of. Lets just hope its ready for them to use :)
Now we have four cents... :-)
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