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"The sad fact is that Linux is a dead duck. Great for aficionados, but in reality, will never get off the ground."
Linux has made vast strides in the desktop market, especially for something that is free and has no real advertising. But as to never getting off the ground, it took flight long ago in the server and embedded markets.
Linux can be hard to use for those that are not too technically inclined and/or older and/or are too used to using something else. Many people just don't want to learn something else. I really don't understand why learning a new computer OS is so daunting to some people yet those same people have no problem learning anything else. Buying a new smart phone with a different interface and OS is nothing but learning to use a new PC OS is... But that is one of the issues of the current generation, the computer is still seen as some kind of voodoo by most of the population.
as big a supporter of Linux as I am and as much as I believe in open source and the ability to do what you want with said software, it still kills me that because of that Linux can not grow as fast as it could. Until the Linux community can decide on a standard way of doing things for what would be standard distributions, it will continue to grow as slow as it does now (in terms of usage at least).
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