(When) Will Linux Pass Apple On The Desktop? 1316
EisPick writes "A column posted today on Slate ponders projections that Linux PCs will pass Apple in desktop market share next year. Will Linux do to OS X what it already has done to Tru64, Irix, HP/UX, AIX and Solaris and emerge as the only viable competitor to Windows on the desktop?"
No (Score:5, Funny)
I would say (Score:5, Funny)
Answer: (Score:5, Funny)
Or when Linus gets the commercial and media attention Steve Jovs gets. Or when Linus developes a reality distortion field of his own.
pffft (Score:1, Funny)
Seriously.
yea only if you .... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Do you really think... (Score:0, Funny)
Linux has advantages?
A.
Re:Market Share? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know that it's completely different... (Score:2, Funny)
Given that OS X can run pretty much anything Linux/*BSD can, why would you say it's worse for the sever room than Linux?
Re:No. (Score:5, Funny)
How then do you explain the success of Windows?
shared user base (Score:3, Funny)
if there's one thing the mac world and the linux world share it's fanatical users. we need a marvel comics team-up to start converting the unwashed masses!
Re:Apple is a system (Score:2, Funny)
Ferrari = way over priced.
Linux on the desktop requires next to no maitnence. once you have things installed you are set to roll. i have been running RH 7.3 on my workstation (at work) for a year and a half without issue. and i can run dvd's, mp3's, vcd's, avi's,
Linux on the server requires maitnence sure
Re:Apple is a system (Score:2, Funny)
Too bad you can't run games.
Re:No (Score:5, Funny)
(1) Plug in a 3-button USB mouse.
I know this procedure may be a little confusing compared to the simple config file edits and driver installations you might be used to in other OS's, but if you follow the steps carefully, you should be able to figure it out. Have fun!
Re:Apple is a system (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No (Score:3, Funny)
I for one would hate to be caught in a viscous cycle!
$ dict viscous
2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Viscous \Vis"cous\, a. [L. viscosus. See {Viscid}.]
Adhesive or sticky, and having a ropy or glutinous
consistency; viscid; glutinous; clammy; tenacious; as, a
viscous juice. -- {Vis"cous*ness}, n.
Note: There is no well-defined distinction in meaning between
viscous and viscid.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
viscous
adj 1: having a relatively high resistance to flow [syn: {syrupy}]
2: having the properties of glue [syn: {gluey}, {glutinous}, {gummy},
{mucilaginous}, {pasty}, {sticky}, {viscid}]
Re:No (Score:1, Funny)
(1) Buy a $1500 computer from apple.com
(2) Buy a $30 mouse that doesn't ship with said $1500 computer
(3) Unplug useless 1 button mouse from $1500 computer.
(4) Plug in a 3-button USB mouse
Re:No (Score:5, Funny)
Short version, in response to the complaint that the Mac has no right mouse button: the Mac has no wrong mouse button.
Yes, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh wait. Hollywood. Nevermind.
Re:I've used Linux almost exclusively since '93... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:On who's desktop? (Score:2, Funny)
Everytime Apple announces a new box, the Mac faithful start screaming about how Apple is going to 'take over.' Hmmm...last I checked they're still around 5 points marketshare. I expect they'll be at 5 points next year just as they were last year. But, Apple fans...keep routing!
That's OK, plenty of idiots here, too. (-: (Score:3, Funny)
There's some beaut scenery. Perth is a nice city but not a patch on some of the amazing stuff in the outback. But you'll find idiots everywhere. The ones in the country tend to be a more interesting quality of idiot, because if they were ordinary boring idiots, they'd have moved back to Perth (or Sydeny or Melbourne) long ago. (-: