On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Girish Venkatachalam
<girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree that the GNOME desktop is quite idiot friendly.
> Windows users will only be slightly uncomfortable with it.

Most of my friends who try out Linux give up after it doesn't play
*any* of the media they have.

> Even after all this days open source continues to appeal only to the
> intelligentsia.

And I don't see that changing. Linux the kernel will probably see
*very* widespread use (eg. Android) but on a traditional desktop, I
don't think it can move beyond the 'intelligentsia'

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Yuvi Panda T
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