Quote:
|
Originally Posted by sba
An average user would at the most need web surfing, write a few documents, listen to his/her MP3s and chat with a few friends
|
Thats my whole point .. For a normal desktop computer, Dial up is the most common interface for Internet .. which unfortunately Linux donot support internal modems .. You will consider this a bit hyped up, but this is the sole reason I sacrifice my Linux partition whenever I need hard disk space .. The support for printers is another one ..
And yeah .. Acer started giving Linux preinstalled on their laptops to cut prices, but they started getting toooo many complains about people getting problems in using it .. and they did not have any support professionals who would take Linux troubleshooting .. They came back to WinXP again ..
I am saying it again and again .. read my first reply in the thread .. there is nothing wrong in being complex .. If you sit on W2k3 server, you will find that it too has got great customization and power but you cannot use it as a desktop system .. Because its not written for that use ..
The very roots of Linux are from Unix which was *not* written for desktop use .. And if they have to embrace this field, they will have to shed that geeky image ..