Apple feels the squeeze from Linux 6651

On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 12:19:24 -0800, John Bailo

This is currently the big growth area for Linux. I expect it to grow exponentially.

This is very true, but OSX is also easy because the choices are very limited for most users. It is clear from the design of OSX that the user is to be protected from themselves. In most Linux distros there is the buttumption that the user knows what they are doing. This is gradually changing, but even distros like Ubuntu can get pear shaped very quickly in the hands of someone that doesn't know what they are doing.

True, but this hasn't happened yet.

Wrong, people buy Macs because of the nice hardware and because of OSX. As far as I am concerned, Linux is now user friendlier than Windows and improving rapidly. But, as I said before, OSX is still the one to catch when it comes to user friendliness and total integration. OSX is a well designed OS for computer illiterates.

These markets are helping Linux to find the lowest common denominator. This is good for getting Linux out there. Unfortunately, in the West a lot of people are afraid to leave their comfort zone, because they are too busy fighting a mbuttive onslaught of malware. The joke of it all is that leaving Windows would solve all their problems. The mbuttes have a long history of behaving like sheep.

Ian