[taildragger]

Spoke with my computer-geek neighbor the other day. He had an astouding statistic, that Ubuntu / Unix flavors in less than a years time have gone from something like 8% of ( US ? or World ? ) users to 14 and change..

Anyone else have similar data? If so, this is big news...

[TomGuy]

If Linux would ever come out with a user friendly, usable interface, they might get users to switch. I don’t want to have to learn a whole new OS just to surf the web and do basic computer production.

But, there dozens of ‘distros’ [whatever they are].

The few times I tried various Linux based programs, they were ok, but lacking. Some didn’t recognize the new widescreen monitors, some didn’t recognize the pctv card, etc.

Linux is still too much of hobbyiest thingy. If they ever get serious, they might become a challenge to Mac and Windows.