From: "Geo" 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> > I think the DRM and copy protection are going to be the main
> > reason
>
> For knowledgeable people, sure, but Joe Average and his Aunt May won't
know
> what it is anyway.

How many people bought W95, W2K, and XP? They are not newbies anymore. And
when they find they can't move their paid for music from their old machine
to new what do you think they will tell their friends?

> Well Linux for sure won't be a factor unless Vista delays another 5 years

Apple didn't lose the desktop market overnight, it was a slow steady
erosion of their customer base, discontinuation of products and rampart
copy protection that knocked them down. Same is happening to windows, more
and more people will not move, a significant number stuck with W2K, more
will stick with XP. Course deactivation might force them to move, we'll see
how that works out soon enough.

> And it sucks. I wish people like whoever it was that came up with that
> idiotic shaking and wobbling windows in Linux thing, that we just saw the
> video of, would dig into the important stuff - how to make wifi just plain
> work, and how to make file & printer sharing just plain work, basic things
> like that. Then we'd have a game. But, still, after all the years of
"Linux
> is finally ready for desktop", the clue is still somewhat missing and
we're
> still fiddling with bash and etc and all that crap, and MS knows it damn
> well and is laughing as they go by.

Man, you definitely need to download knoppix and stick the CD in your
thinkpad. Only thing you need to know is at the boot prompt type

knoppix screen=1400x1050

or whatever your natural screen resolution is. For 80% of the people I know
who have computers, it's perfect. It allows them to do email, instant
messaging, and browsing and it comes with an office suite. Not saying this
is where folks are going to go, more likely they will just not upgrade. But
Linux is definitely an option at this point and as MS starts to squeeze
tighter with the copy protection and DRM it's going to provide lots of
motivation.

Geo.

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