I'm telling you Linux is about a year or two away from taking over the consumer market. The OS is sweet and only needs a little fine tuning and more good gui based programs and MS is toast.
FYI, you aren't the first little bo peep to make that prediction, I've been hearing it myself since the 90's, when lots of people lost lots of money on VA Linux. You need to confer with some real experts, there's no one predicting any significant increase for linux on the desktop, anytime soon. If you want something different than MS on the desktop, place your money on Apple, although I won't be placing mine there anytime soon. But at least they have a product that's cracked the door of Best Buy, although I don't think Circuit City lets them in at all, at least not right now.
"I'm telling you Linux is about a year or two away from taking over the consumer market."
At some point in the first half of the 1980s I attended a conference in Boston. Two of the featured speakers were Jim Seymour and John C. Dvorak. They were debating whether UNIX would replace Windows.
Nothing has changed.
Linux is a threat to UNIX, not Windows.