I agree that it may be awhile till getting those apps, but I think it will happen.
if Linux ever gets to 30% of desktops, possibly even 20% then it will outnumber Mac's by far.. then developers will start porting accross because they don't want to lose market share. just depends if things get good enough to get that sort of desktop numbers.. As more apps are developed for linux, then more desktop users will want to swap over.. especially when M$ starts charging 200 dollars a year to have their OS installed and running each year after the 300 you paid for the right to install it.. (which appears to be one of their plans with .NET and passport.) rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 9:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] How is Linux doing on the desktop? ltiu wrote: > > Informal survey. > > How many people in this email list are actually using Linux "exclusively" for > their desktop computing needs? > > When I say "exclusively", I mean you don't just play with Linux and then > reboot to another OS to do real work, but actually do everything with Linux. > > ltiu > Ltiu: Since I retired last spring, it's been pretty much LM all of the time. About the only time that I use Windows is to balance my checkbook. If I wasn't so damn lazy (see, every day is Saturday now), I'd move it over to GnuCash and put an end to it. On those occasions when I've needed some sort of office software, Star Office works just fine. (I'm sick of all of the crap about the lack of an exact MS Office look-alike being a major barrier to using Linux in the workplace. You can do the same stuff in pretty much the same manner in Star Office as with MS Office, the possible exception being the VB junk. First, very few people actually use that stuff. Second, when they do, it doesn't work very well -- if at all. It's a helluva lot easier to import/export from Star to MS than it is between various versions of the Redmond trash.) If I were still working, however, Windows would still be a absolute necessity. I was a mechanical engineer, and spent a large part of every day using AutoCad and ProE; I haven't found any linux alternatives for either of those. I expect that the same thing is true with a lot of that type of software -- there just aren't any Linux equivalents, and I'm not very optimistic that there ever will be. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't see it happening. Thanks for the chance to speak out. Carroll
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