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Many of us feel stuck today in various areas of our lives. We question many of the policies than govern us and wonder why we have to put up with them. I question how our government has allowed a bully to run amok controlling the computer market to the extent that it pervades what we can study in our educational systems. With enrollment in technical courses at a low peak perhaps it's because people don't see a future where Microsoft is the only option.

Just once, it would be refreshing to read a Linux post that did not have this type of "Microsoft is a bully and is the reason Linux isn't used by every Grandmother in America!" statement.

Linux vs Microsoft technical comparisons, usability, etc., --- great! Competition is the American way.

Microsoft is bad, Linux is good, the world is unfair, Americans are stoopid for not going to Linux, blah, blah, blah, --- boring!

Who knows, maybe sometime in the future, I will find a Linux article in which the author can stick to the technical facts of comparing the two, and skip the flaming rhetoric.

As an owner of the deluxe-super-duper paid versions of the newest versions of both Xandros and Linspire, including a paid membership to both of their subscription services (it ain't over when you the buy the program, folks), I have either installed or attempted to install both programs, as well as various other free Linux "flavors" on four different PC's of varying age and capability, including a new laptop, with varying results. As a result of my experience as a non-Geek who has been working with MS Windows since its very first release, I have just one word to say about people who tout Linux for their grandmothers, or tell us about the fabulous "usability" or "compatibility" of Linux:

DELUSIONAL

P.S. If grandma's giving you a headache with all the wormy e-mail she keeps opening, or all the spyware she invites home, and the choice is between Linux and a Mac: splurge and buy her a Mac.

Who knows, maybe sometime in the future, I will find a Linux article in which the author can stick to the technical facts of comparing the two, and skip the flaming rhetoric.

Impossible. It isn't in their DNA. We "normal human beings" just aren't enlightened enough to see the value of their frathouse operating system. /SARCASM