Linux has been around for more than ten years, but has still not made a significant impact on the desktop.

Rather than argue that using an OS depends on study by its customers, its developers’ time would be better spent eliminating reasons for users to deal with drivers, administrative accounts, and privileges.Īny software whose successful adoption depends on people learning its arcane ways is doomed to failure. You are, very much incorrectly, assuming that people who want to use computers have reasons to know: 1) What a driver is 2) What an admnistrator is: 3) What privileges are 3) Why it makes any sense for me to be able to run a command to give myself temporary privileges that you just said I don’t have. One is often forced to search far & wide on the net for hardware drivers, even if one has the original install CDs that came with the hardware they are often out-of-date and won’t work with a later version of Windows.įinally, having gone through all that time and expense – one still hasn’t got any applications on the system – just a bare OS, OS protection (because this OS needs it), and drivers.Īny Ubuntu system is far, far more likely to be more complete, more secure, far more functional out of the box and require less setup and less finding compatible drivers – and install in one tenth of the time and at no cost. Before you go on-line you must have a firewall & anti-virus and IE replacement installed (it is best to connect via a proxy and to tell only the IE replacement program what the address of the proxy is). The original install often takes four or five re-boots where Linux takes jsut one. Windows is far and away the more difficult to install. I have experience in installing both Windows and Linux on a variety of computers and getting it working with a variety of peripherals, including cameras.

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