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Fuzzy Logic Have consumers spoken and said: “Linux sux”?
Fuzzy Logic Have consumers spoken and said: “Linux sux”? | Have consumers spoken and said: “Linux sux”? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 07 October 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 Here Tung shows MSI’s intention to persevere with Linux, despite the return rates that have been much studied, saying: “We plan to bring the Linux version to the U.S by the end of the year. Featured Whitepaper
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That "user experience" will still need to be tested, however, and then future return rates studied again. For the sake of the future of Linux, competition against Microsoft and Apple - and for the vaunted Linux sense of open source and freedom from oppression, the battle against the evil commercial Microsoft corporation, let's hope MSI, Asus and other computer manufacturers start taking Linux more seriously and helping shape its future into one consumers are even happier with than Windows. So... while one or even two netbook makers clearly aren’t a full indication of just how consumers see Linux, it certainly does tell a story. And perhaps if a few had persevered a little further, they’d have figured out the differences and learned to love Linux as much as the next Linux fan and stop worrying. But in a world where time is money, and change is hard, despite being inevitable like death and taxes, the inevitability of Windows being the preferred OS will continue for some time to come, no matter how much Linux purists wish it weren’t so, and no matter how many pins they place into voodoo dolls of William H Gates III holding a copy of Windows. For no matter how much Linux has improved to date, Windows is still, for the vast, overwhelming majority of users, far more sophisticated and infinitely more user friendly. No doubt, Linux will keep on improving, and will likely one day get there, making a major challenge to any future version of Windows. But by then, whenever that may be, Microsoft could always make consumer versions of Windows free, or even drop prices dramatically to compete, making the always free Linux pill that much harder to swallow. * 1.04% Linux userbase derived from the mean of OS usage stats at Wikipedia, as of September 2008. |
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