<snip> 5. Plus, MS DOS came on all PC's anyway (just like today). So people didn't have to install the OS... just their applications. </snip>
The exact point I was just about to make. Any mainstream PC that you buy these days (from virtually anywhere) will come with a preloaded OS and Applications. For the same reason people choose to connect to the internet via AOL, they will never migrate from Windows to Linux. It's easy. It requires no configuration, and to someone who has no experience, it's perfect. Would I go out and buy a professional camera where I need to manually adjust shutter speed and f-stop if I had no experience with photography, or would I buy the fully automatic camera so I could actually take useful pictures? My point is, most people will never need the benefits of linux nor should they use linux if they are content with the what they have and their PC serves their needs. I've had as much trouble with linux crashing as I have with Windows (I'm talking about NT family ONLY). A stock windows install on supported hardware runs absolutely fine. Linux on "supported" mainstream hardware runs great as well. I think the only difference (besides cost, and again, that doesn't matter since it is included in the purchase of a PC) between the operating systems is flexibility in what you can configure...which is NOT a good thing for casual home users. They need to be saved from their PC's and this is the reason that Microsoft is so successful. It's the amount of hand-holding they do for the non computer-savvy that put them where they are today. And as far as why MAC never took off, computers were originally designed for use in corporate enviroments. After people found them useful at the office, they figured they may be useful at home as well. They just bought what they were used to. And if you want to look at why ease of use didn't make the MAC successful, what the hell happened to the machine XEROX devoleped...the original inventors of the mouse. My $0.02 Jeff Graves Customer Support Engineer Image Source, Inc. 10 Mill Street Bellingham, MA 02019 508.966.5200 X31 - Phone 508.966.5170 - Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Email _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
