To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Nobody is switching from Mac to Linux. But Windows users are switching to Macs in droves.
Linux remains in distant third place on desktop computers, with little growth in the installed base. But Linux is doing very well on servers, where it belongs.
3 posted on
07/25/2006 5:17:47 PM PDT by
HAL9000
(Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
To: HAL9000
4 posted on
07/25/2006 7:12:33 PM PDT by
Halfmanhalfamazing
(Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
To: HAL9000
"Nobody is switching from Mac to Linux"
Yeah, that's almost laughable. Sorry, I'm a Linux user, and the only people that use Linux are technically adept people that prefer the Unix world over the Windows World, and while OSX is based in a Unix hybrid now, they go to great lengths to hide it, so the traditional "I need a computer so easy to use it's stupid" crowd would never go near Linux with a 10 ft pole; if anything, I've seen lots of Linux users migrate to the Mac because it gives them the best of both worlds....Unix and commercially supported GUI envirnoment.
"But Windows users are switching to Macs in droves"
Ummm, define "droves"? I don't see that many Windows users making the switch, sorry. Apple still has, what, 4 percent of the PC market? 5 at the most? They're making money, and their influence is far above their true market penetration, but for the most part, Windows people stick with XP.
30 posted on
07/31/2006 9:01:51 AM PDT by
DesScorp
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