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There are plenty of GNU/Linux distros that are targeted at normal, everyday users. Ubuntu is probably the most popular of them.
Yes, /targeted at/; but the take-up is pitifully small. You cannot successully target an O/S such as Linux at "the average man (or woman) in the street"; it is, I am sure, a wonderful O/S for those who feel an affinity with it; but Microsoft, for all their failings, have been far far more successful at identifying what the average man (or woman) in the street needs and wants. And for a person who has no clear mental model of the differences between Java, Javascript and cookies, Linux would surely present an enormous number of impenetrable obstacles.
Apple also has a significantly smaller market share than Microsoft on the desktop, but that's not generally taken as an indication that normal users can't cope with Apple's OS.
OS/X has five times the take-up of Linux; statistics cannot lie ... ** Phil. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
