> It needs to come new, preinstalled, on new machines assembled with linux
in
> mind. The way w95 does. That is it's greatest disadvantage. It's an
open
> market, folks, who's entrepreneurial?
But still people won't buy it because very few companies are actually
proclaiming their support for it. As Or said upthread, Windows has more
games than Linux. Now I'm currently (on my other machine running Slakware
97 (now 2.2.2 for some reason)) playing Quake with a friend over the 'net.
In a couple of keypresses I could get Quake II, DooM, DooM II, Ultimate
DooM, Heretic, Half-Life, and probably a few others but I forget. Although
those are all iD engines, they make up quite a few of the most popular games
recently - digging about a bit would probably turn up quite a few of the
rest. However, there's the problem - digging about for software.
A new user might well sit in front of a pre-packaged machine with some easy
GUI set up (I would, as long as I could tell the thing I don't want runlevel
4 at startup, 3'll do for me thanks) and maybe with some apps and games
preinstalled - but until the software vendors say 'hey, look, our really big
new killer app/game/coffee machine is for Linux' people are going to assume
there's nothing to use on it and buy the Windoze one instead. (I know some
companies are selling Linux stuff - I just ordered some Linux software from
IBM for instance - but they're not HUGE PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTs yet.)
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