Did I hear anybpody say "games"?
In my opinion people use computers to some large extent for playing games and Linux is way back on this department. Apart from some sophisticated games shipped with KDE and GNOME, the rest of the games available for Linux are the ones I played when I was 16 and now I am 42. How can I talk my kid into using Linux when all the good games run under Windows? Now if that kid grows up and buys a PC for his home or office what kind of OS will he choose?
And there is one more thing to take into account; I firmly believe that half of the windows machines available in homes or offices here in Greece are hacked. Microsoft know that but deep down they are OK, because the money they get from the other half are more than enough. Not to mention that people get used to a kind of desktop and then they sort of demand it when they go to work.
