[PastorBooks]

“Depressingly, there is a similar trend in the desktop UI’s of Apple and Linux.”

True, but with Linux we’ll always have a choice. There will always be alternate desktops and the makers can’t force a choice upon us. Microsoft and Apple can and do.

[Ron C.]

Linux has grown quite a bit from what it once was. I think it is the most used in the world at this point. Only in America do people hang on to Microsoft's latest screwed up OS.

But, the biggest problem with Linux is the software that will run on it, and that which will not - which includes most business software people in the US are most familiar with.