Read the interesting article (A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows) in The New York Times.
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Interesting article, but shows the reporter’s lack of experience in spots. For instance, talk about upgrades breaking things. I’ve been using Ubuntu since Dapper and, yes, Hardy, had a few problems but that was the first and only time. Other than that, for all software, not just the OS itself, I’ve always been able to just push the “upgrade” button and go. For comparison, let’s talk about Vista and how many hundreds of things that suddenly broke. I know I’m beating a dead horse but, honestly, the comparison seems relevant when pointing out that Ubuntu picked up one stone in its hooves.
This sort of thing really frosts me because, at this point, Ubuntu is *easier* to use than Windows. And switching to it has a *smaller* learning curve than switching to, say, a Mac. Meanwhile big problems in Windows are acceptable, but even the tiniest glitches somehow prove that “Linux is for geeks.”
(Sheesh. My comment is longer than the whole post.
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I agree with you. The reporter might not even see Ubuntu before to comment on it. I agree there are some grey areas in Ubuntu, which are due to lack of support from hardware vendors than Ubuntu itself. My dad and my father in law use Ubuntu and they felt comfortable installing it by themselves and using it.