> Linux has made great strides to become useable for the average user, and > it will continue to do so. Regardless, for virtually every windows > program, there is some piece of equivalent software in some phase of > development that is free.
It has made great strides, for sure. One area where there is lacking is that every hardware manufacturer tests their stuff on windows. Somehow some still manage to not work, but usu hardware works in window. That seems to be what most of the *problems* with linux (on this list for example) deal with: getting such-and-such hardware to work. I still can't get acpi and the parallel port to play together. I am not complaining, i love linux, and it feels so good to be "back home." But, i also want to be fair and admit to some of the challenges we face. My windows only friends could have installed XP on my computer no problem (i swear this damn thing was built to only work for windows) but linux has been much tricker. For the record i'd like to reiterate that i am not bashing linux in any way: i love it here and am never turning back. eric
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