Linux is balls.

I installed Ubuntu on my new HD to correct the corrupt boot loader on my primary drive. It did the trick, but now I've got a drive full of useless OS. Linux is like that. It does so much, but in the end doesn't do enough. Some of its faults are simply the failings of a system that hasn't hit mass appeal. Some of them, though, are failings that are keeping it from EVER hitting mass appeal. Linux assumes that its average user will be, at least passingly, familiar with console. This is fine for the nerdy and the remotely nerdy, but your average computer user never wants to see a command prompt. To them, that blinking cursor is terrifying.

For all that Linux has made great strides to become more modular and user friendly, it still fails in some very basic ways. As a Windows power user, I'm use to being able to make my OS do anything I want it to (whether it likes it or not), and being able to run any and all software that I encounter. I love to mode my hardware and play with inner workings of all my different gadgets, and that's just not something you can do from linux. While there is often SOME support for Linux, generally windows is the easiest OS to find apps to do those crazy things hardware geeks like to do.

I believe linux is destined to remain the OS of those who like doing nothing better then tuning their OS. No other operating system is so easy to pick apart and custom tailor to your likings. For the vast majority of computer users though, being able to run any software they come across, and being able to plug in and use almost any piece of hardware they might buy with nothing more then the included driver disc, is all that they want from a computer.

That is all.

Fox