I can't see why some still cannot see linux as a viable
alternative to windows. If it arrives pre installed to the
average user what is different to web browsing, internet
banking, using open office for letters and documents etc. It
is only in areas such as games and other users of windows
only apps that would find linux unsuitable. My home machine
is linux only. I don't want to come home and work, I don't
play games. Linux is far superior for music editing.
internet banking, watching movies all the things I do at
home. It goes every time I turn it on with minimall effort
to keep it that way. Many of my co-worker's who use their
home machines running windows for much the same things as I
do would benefit from a switch. The main requirement, as I
see it, for windows lies in Applications required,
Accounting, CAD, Engineering applications only available in
windows versions. Windows v linux or any other os is driven
by required applications, not by linux not being ready for
the masses myth that some seem to persist with. Linux is a
easy to use modern, reliable quite possibly superior os
right now, and has been for a while. What is lacking is
linux versions of the applications required to do some
tasks.