Which is why Linux has taken off as a major OS even after Dell, IBM, and others have offered Linux?? Of course not. Linux is OK, but it is terribly unsupported and too complex to use for the average computer user.
I don’t manage my Windows 7 machines at all, and rarely the servers. They hum along just fine.
“Which is why Linux has taken off as a major OS even after Dell, IBM, and others have offered Linux?? Of course not. Linux is OK, but it is terribly unsupported and too complex to use for the average computer user.”
The market dominance of Microsoft and Apple OS’s is due more to decades of massive advertising than anything else. They have captured the public’s attention. Most non-technical people have never even heard of Linux. True, Linux is not nearly as well supported as the other OS’s, but that does not make it technically inferior as an OS. Hard to use Linux? I have invited users at work to borrow my computer and it takes them a while to even figure out they weren’t using Windows. Even installation has gotten simpler. I installed Red Hat over ten years ago, and that did require technical knowledge to partition the hard drive and install. That’s not the case anymore. Linux will remain a niche product, but don’t tell me it takes days and hours to install, configure and maintain it. ‘Taint so!