On Sunday 16 February 2003 13:04, Mark Stahlke wrote:
OK, I'll jump in here with a different opinion.
From a technical perspective, Linux is more "ready for the desktop" than Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 were. Remember IRQ conflicts? Driver incompatibilities? DLL hell? Registry corruption? And the list goes on.
Er... don't know if you've noticed, but no-one in real life has been using either of those for years. The current target for Linux-on-the-desktop to hit or surpass -- in terms of the user experience -- is WinXP. Or, at least Windows 2000. I'll be getting that on my office laptop in a week or two. (Currently WinNT) If you go to a store, even a store like "Trailing Edge" or similar second-hand-and-end-of-production jobber, and buy a computer with OS, you get Win 98SE or something newer. Comparing a commercial Linux offering of today to Windows of 1994 is spurious... a straw-man at best. /kevin