Well paying for support on free software is a good and bad thing. Which home user wants to pay a company to tell them what to do? They want to learn how to do things themselves? For business this is a good thing, but for home use it will never kick in.
As far as technology goes, 64 bit has been around for years...but windows and software does not take advantage of it. As fast as technology moves...why do we still not have 64bit fully implemented...and windows does such a poor job of it. I can't wait till the day Linux has 100% company support, maintains a high quality top performing OS without compromise, and has ease of use or a GUI for all required features and settings. What pisses me off is that all new intel and AMD CPUs being sold are 64-bit...why doesn't microsoft only sell 64-bit version of vista and force all software companies to upgrade to the 64-bit path. Anybody with an older 32-bit cpu could just keep running xp.
As far as mainstream adoption of Linux goes. When piracy hits an end Linux will shine. People want to copy DVDs so they do a search and find DVD decryptor, dvd shrink, clone dvd, dvd fab, etc.... that all work on windows. They download torrents for Nero and Power DVD that only work on windows. All their games only work on windows. Photoshop and office are easily available via piracy. We can easily mount all our pirated images using daemon tools in windows. Its way too easy to have good easy to use software for free on windows. We live with the performance windows offers and know no better. If we want faster we upgrade hardware. Not many people realize how much faster and trouble free computing would be on Linux based systems.
As far as technology goes, 64 bit has been around for years...but windows and software does not take advantage of it. As fast as technology moves...why do we still not have 64bit fully implemented...and windows does such a poor job of it. I can't wait till the day Linux has 100% company support, maintains a high quality top performing OS without compromise, and has ease of use or a GUI for all required features and settings. What pisses me off is that all new intel and AMD CPUs being sold are 64-bit...why doesn't microsoft only sell 64-bit version of vista and force all software companies to upgrade to the 64-bit path. Anybody with an older 32-bit cpu could just keep running xp.
As far as mainstream adoption of Linux goes. When piracy hits an end Linux will shine. People want to copy DVDs so they do a search and find DVD decryptor, dvd shrink, clone dvd, dvd fab, etc.... that all work on windows. They download torrents for Nero and Power DVD that only work on windows. All their games only work on windows. Photoshop and office are easily available via piracy. We can easily mount all our pirated images using daemon tools in windows. Its way too easy to have good easy to use software for free on windows. We live with the performance windows offers and know no better. If we want faster we upgrade hardware. Not many people realize how much faster and trouble free computing would be on Linux based systems.