Ken Foskey <kfos...@tpg.com.au> writes:
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 06:08 +1000, Martin Visser wrote:
>> Jon's experience probably really demonstrates why Linux isn't going to go
>> mainstream anytime soon. While I would say 90% of people are going to have
>> hardware that just works with the most current release of most distros, it
>> is the 10% that have issues that really stings.
[...]
> Installed windows on non-mainstream machines lately. You have to find
> drivers, have conflicts of dlls and other things.
*nod* The real problem is not that Linux is hard to install: Windows is just
as damn hard, and just as painful, for non-technical users.[1]
The problem is that when you buy your machine it comes with Windows installed
for you, by someone else, and you don't have to worry about it.
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] Heck, it sucks for technical folks too, a lot of the time.
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