[wplug] wired resp

[Patrick Weber]

John,

I fully understand your argument.  Windows and Linux are apples and 
oranges.  And that is part of the point.  The article doesn't compare 
them.  It merely states that Windows has in fact won on the desktop.  Many 
of us realize the capabilities of Linux.  However the immensely steep 
learning curve for the average user limits its access to only the techies 
who can deal with that.  There is the Aunt Tilly factor that will always 
determine the better operating system for the home desktop user.  No doubt 
Linux is more stable, but in Windows you will never (supposedly) have to do 
more than point and click.  Linux is very intimidating to desktop users who 
want nothing more than to send their email and write a letter in 
Word.  Therefore it is important to not compare Linux and Windows, for each 
achieve different goals.  Linux will never be the desktop operating system 
that Windows is, so let's stop pretending that it might.  We use Linux to 
develop software, act as a super stable server, whatever.  It is a 
different type of tool for a different type of task.

--patrick