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Originally Posted by cjmillsnun
I'm not going into sales pitch.
I'll just tell you how I got into Linux.
When I was a student, couldn't afford Microsoft products and looked on the net for cheap software.
I found this "free operating system" (Slackware) and decided to give it a go. I've been hooked ever since.
It proved useful to me at Uni as I was learning Unix at the time, so could practice at home.
BTW Linux isn't really geeky now and generally comes with enough apps to make it useful out of the box. (eg openoffice.org). With WineX you are able to play a large number of games.
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But compared to your average consumer who is bred on windows, you still need an element of geekiness to persist with it, usability is not handed to you on a plate with any worthwhile distro. Agreed, once you get into it it's probably fairly easy to use, but Windows is so much easier and that's what consumers want, I have customers who are intimidated by the amount of buttons on your average mouse, Linux would give them nightmares.
I haven't used anything other than Windows since Mandrake 8, but for me, the ability to install software without opening a console, typing su root, make, make install, configure, (probably all arse about tit) only to be given some obscure error that would fluster Albert Einstein, outweighs my curiousity towards trying any newer versions.