Fast Vista penetration
It just hit me -- fast adoption of Vista by Windows users is probably a good thing for the Mac market share (and Linux as a cheaper alternative, of course). I know it sounds ridiculous, but listen to me for a second. A whole bunch of folks will upgrade either by purchasing a new PC with Vista pre-installed or worse yet by buying the ridiculously overpriced upgrade and installing it on their outdated hardware. And the stuff will break: microphones will stop working, printers will stop printing, apps will start crashing, annoying dialog boxes will start popping up everywhere, etc... and suddenly the prospect of switching to a completely different OS all their geekier friends can't stop raving about will become less scary! What do you think?
Did you have a chance to see the new Compiz fusion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ImW0-MgR8I) yet? Windows users get jealous as I point them to it =) Linux becomes mature and people switching to it become mature and intelligent as well, say, they stop to spend time for stealing software and healing viruses after running faked "cracks" and "unlockers".
ps: what a dumb blog, it doesn't allow to post html links and lost typekey authentication after the error.
Posted by: Paul Philippov | July 15, 2007 at 10:24 AM
Yeah, I've seen Compiz. It looks pretty, but I don't think that "pretty" is what will push Linux over the edge. And it's not about the availability of apps either. I spent an hour trying to make Compiz work on my box. And you need a compiler in order to install many if not most apps. When that is fixed, we'll finally have "a year of linux". Of course, that said, I prefer it to Windows even today.
I turned off html support in comments intentionally (I think). TypeKey thing is a bug, though.
Posted by: George Sudarkoff | July 15, 2007 at 08:17 PM