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' -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc