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Okay it is no secret that Linux has not been able to crack the desktop, either at the home or at the workplace. Not to ignored either is that Windows lost some desktops last year (a little over 3%),but let’s not panic just yet, Windows still owns over 88% of all the desktops according to leading research. Many people might be surprised to learn that I come from a background of Windows, Linux, UNIX and even MAC. In fact, my first IT experience was in a Novell/SCO UNIX environment. Now there are some fundamental issues to why Windows 7 will trump Linux distros like Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian. Therefor, to get those out of the way let’s just spell them out.

[Here's my submission for FUD-of-the-week. It's just too funny. I dare you to top that! -- Sander]



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Why do all those arguments (in the actual text) sound just the same as always? Games? MP3? Support? Open source software? What desktop GNU/Linux operating system doesn't give you those? Oh well, I guess the "leading research" took two cases, Windows 7 ad and the worst desktop GNU/Linux OS they could find..

Watching some (video) reviews of Windows 7 doesn't give the same picture. So either the development versions aren't the same that "leading research" uses or there's a lot of ad-money going on behind the scenes.. The PowerShell, which has been available since XP already, did sound good at start, but after three and half months at least the first versions of it were horrible to use, especially compared to the simpleness of bash. And how do all the external programs cope with objects that PowerShell uses (did they ever think some people might use non-PowerShell programs too to achieve something)?

Sounds like an ad to me, not a Linux crusher. But luckily they still got time to get there; if they actually managed to make it that good, it would simply mean other operating systems would soon be better and we all had great time..

To me the article seem sarcastic in a way ... or could it be that it wasn't ? Do they really believe this s**t that they're spouting ? It's hard for me to tell. It's funny actually, I think.

So is it being sarcastic, I want to know, seriously.