Comments on: Ubuntu Linux: Almost there to be mainstream, but much work needs to be done http://www.kokul-idk.com/2007/11/08/ubuntu-linux-almost-there-to-be-mainstream-but-much-work-needs-to-be-done A blog about various things in life. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:41:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Joxer Hindsight III http://www.kokul-idk.com/2007/11/08/ubuntu-linux-almost-there-to-be-mainstream-but-much-work-needs-to-be-done#comment-1627 Joxer Hindsight III Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:17:42 +0000 http://www.kokul-idk.com/2007/11/08/ubuntu-linux-almost-there-to-be-mainstream-but-much-work-needs-to-be-done/#comment-1627 Actually windows did not become popular because of its ease of use or intuitiveness - Mac OS did. Windows became popular because of hardware and liscencing. Basically, Apple (until recently) would only make Mac OS for its own computers, running the PPC architecture. Microsoft being primarily software oriented, chose to make deals and bundle out windows with the much more popular x86 machines and architectures as well as a whole host of other computing products. People only use windows because everything is made for it! And quit whining. Everyone who expects to use a computer for something serious has to deal with command-line at some poin.t Actually windows did not become popular because of its ease of use or intuitiveness - Mac OS did. Windows became popular because of hardware and liscencing. Basically, Apple (until recently) would only make Mac OS for its own computers, running the PPC architecture. Microsoft being primarily software oriented, chose to make deals and bundle out windows with the much more popular x86 machines and architectures as well as a whole host of other computing products. People only use windows because everything is made for it!

And quit whining. Everyone who expects to use a computer for something serious has to deal with command-line at some poin.t

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