@belardo
You arent considering that:
1. People and companies already have windows entrenched in their daily lives. It could be as simple as the work computer that you use every day, or the school you grow up attending with Windows computers only. People tend to love familiarity. Unless you are going on the theory that these tablets and iDevices will be taking over and eradicating the desktop computer's role, or even the laptop's role in people's lives.
2. Linux distros have for the longest time said they are striving to make Linux as easy to use, upgrade, and consistant behavior across each company's version. But the truth is, being so fragmented severely hurts the novice and/or general computer buyer from adopting the platform. The openness and freedom of building a distro is the "Linux proliferation movement's" undoing here. IIRC, Steam, which could finally help #3 become somewhat of a thing of the past will only be supporting one distro officially (ubuntu). So, unless Ubuntu becomes the only distro a novice, general computer user ever uses, they may not get any support for certain important apps.
3. Games and Commercial apps. Look, we can debate all day on whether things like GIMP and OpenOffice are anywheres near as good or behave just like Office or Photoshop, but until the commercial standards show up on a linux platform, the novice user just wont want to bother even IF the near impossibilities of #1 & 2 are solved for linux distros.
These are just the obvious reasons why Linux has never made any significant inroads in the novice computer users life. And I'm sorry, but Vista was an even bigger egg in the face for MS than Win8 seems like it ever will be (Vista launch: massive stability issues, whether it actually was MS or driver vendor's fault; slow performance) and still the general computing public made no significant move to Linux. It helped apple a bit, IIRC.
You arent considering that:
1. People and companies already have windows entrenched in their daily lives. It could be as simple as the work computer that you use every day, or the school you grow up attending with Windows computers only. People tend to love familiarity. Unless you are going on the theory that these tablets and iDevices will be taking over and eradicating the desktop computer's role, or even the laptop's role in people's lives.
2. Linux distros have for the longest time said they are striving to make Linux as easy to use, upgrade, and consistant behavior across each company's version. But the truth is, being so fragmented severely hurts the novice and/or general computer buyer from adopting the platform. The openness and freedom of building a distro is the "Linux proliferation movement's" undoing here. IIRC, Steam, which could finally help #3 become somewhat of a thing of the past will only be supporting one distro officially (ubuntu). So, unless Ubuntu becomes the only distro a novice, general computer user ever uses, they may not get any support for certain important apps.
3. Games and Commercial apps. Look, we can debate all day on whether things like GIMP and OpenOffice are anywheres near as good or behave just like Office or Photoshop, but until the commercial standards show up on a linux platform, the novice user just wont want to bother even IF the near impossibilities of #1 & 2 are solved for linux distros.
These are just the obvious reasons why Linux has never made any significant inroads in the novice computer users life. And I'm sorry, but Vista was an even bigger egg in the face for MS than Win8 seems like it ever will be (Vista launch: massive stability issues, whether it actually was MS or driver vendor's fault; slow performance) and still the general computing public made no significant move to Linux. It helped apple a bit, IIRC.
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