I gather from that you are not keen on Microsoft products.
That puts you into one of two categories.
1. I hate Windows. I love Linux. OR 2. I love Linux. I hate Windows.
Choose whichever you want, it makes no difference to me.
Microsoft is a private company. It has to make a profit to survive. To survive in business you eliminate or buy out the competition.
Just look at Sony Blue Ray eliminating Toshiba HD DVD.
The way Toshiba suddenly capitulated was startling as Blue Ray is still in the minority.
Should I start my own conspiracy theories about this.
For whatever reason, Windows is the preferred choice by the majority of computer users at the moment.
If Linux developers actually produced a system that didn't change every other month, was as simple to use as Windows, then they might have a bigger uptake.
Linux is free, so why don't more people use it.
Answer.....because it does not meet peoples needs in a simple and useable fashion.
Personally, I don't care what operating system people use.
I have dabbled with various versions of Linux.
One didn't like my graphic card. Another refused to recognise .mp3 files.
I don't need that hassle and XP didn't give it to me at that time.
Linux still appears to be an operating system for those that wish to tinker with the nuts and bolts.
The rest of us just want an operating system that does everything in the background with the user hardly being aware of its existence.
Don't get me wrong, I am not anti Linux. I want competition for Microsoft but Linux just isn't doing it.
Why, because it does not have that ruthless business streak to compete and be better than the competition.
It probably never will whilst it is free but that is what most people love about Linux.
You can't have it both ways.
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