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The first 10 paragraphs seem to be intentionally echoing the usual gripes and fears, in an ignorant-sounding tone. The author could have made it more clear, but
by etal 18y ago
The first 10 paragraphs seem to be intentionally echoing the usual gripes and fears, in an ignorant-sounding tone. The author could have made it more clear, but I think he meant for it to sound flippant or somewhat mocking, then rebut most of it in the rest of the article.
It's a decent Mac-user-tries-Ubuntu anecdote, not so much a review. But he does bring up one good point: Apple spends hojillions on advertising, and Microsoft at least matches that. Word of mouth is great for converting power-users, but there's a reason the advertising industry churns through so much money -- it works.
- felixc 18y agoWhile the point about advertising is interesting, I think it's a bit of a red herring: Apple and Microsoft are trying to make money by having people use their OS, so naturally they have to convert people, or convince them to not switch to the competition. Linux on the other hand doesn't need to convert people. Sure, the more users you get, the more potential developers there are, and the better the system will end up being. And of course there are commercial Linux distributions. But in general, Linux doesn't need advertising, because it doesn't need to "win." It just needs to stay alive for those of us who want to use it!