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Windows 8 - Yea or Nay?
ackblom12:
I agree with the fact there are majorly bad implications to the world's most common OS going Walled Garden, but I'm laughing quite heartily at the idea of the world at large switching to Linux.
Bluesummers:
Well yeah, we KNOW it'll never really happen. To many people not uncomfortable enough to bail from MS, too many corporations and school, etc that will buy Win8 licenses...meh. I'll stick with Vista for now. Not like I have a choice, it's the boss's computer.
ackblom12:
Not just for the customer comfort, though that is a large part f it, but I'm also trying to imagine the Linux community being willing to do what's needed to make it a viable option for the average PC user in a world that's used to much more user friendly OS's. MAC is a much more likely switch over and Apple is fucking horrid.
Bluesummers:
I actually went and bought a copy of Novell's SuSE Linux when I was in college. It cost me about $80, and everything that it offered was well worth it. The GUI was nice and simple, too. The only thing I didn't like was the Windows emulator, which was subpar, at best. But I'll assume that great strides have been made on that front, owing to the vast array of x86 & x64 .exe applications released in the seven years since I last used SuSE. Plus, owing to the fact that Linux is open-source by definition, I'm sure that other developers have better emulators.
ackblom12:
Yeah, but you're not the average user. The average user doesn't build his (or others) own computer, as simple as it is. I finally broke down and decided to try out Linux again after several years of not using it and I can definitely see how someone who had never used a Computer before could learn it easily, but your average user who is used to MAC OSX or Windows is not gonna have a fun time. There have been ridiculous strides in comparison to the last time I used it, but it's still not as user friendly as either of the other 2 big alternatives.
Edit - Though to be fair, I've not used a pay version of Linux before. Never seen much point to it.
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