In article , Robin
scribeth thus
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Well you manage to appear stupid with effortless ease. Probably a
windows zealot...

Why don't you spend your time and energy addressing whatever market
failures have stopped Linux taking a larger share of the desktop
market - especially the consumer desktop market - despite manifest
advantages such as price? As it is this is yet another thread which
seems to me to support the (in)famous comment:

"The biggest killer of putting penguin software on the desktop was the
Linux community. If you think the Apple fanboys are completely barking,
they are role models of sanity to the loudmouthed Open Sauce religious
loonies who are out there."

https://web.archive.org/web/20131222.../software/linu
xs-chance-has-gone

And AIUI you couldn't just install any old Linux distro and use Netflix
until last autumn. If so, how was that a system fit for the consumer
market?




I suspect that as most PC's are supplied by retail shops, and of course
the industrial users can be supplied by anyone the suppliers won't get
that much profit out of a freebie operating system nor will they make
much from Open office or Libre office etc....



FWIW tried Linux and it was OK, and use WIN 7 and its also OK and does
what I need of it, so no real reason/s to change.

However I do need to make up another PC from some spare bits around and
if Linux can do what's needed then we'll see how that goes but that
particular standalone PC will be in an office populated by people using
WINders;!...
--
Tony Sayer