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IDC: Linux overtakes Mac OS as the No. 2 desktop OS

updated 05:50 pm EDT, Wed August 4, 2004

Linux overtakes Mac OS

HP began shipping its first notebook computer to come with the Linux operating system preinstalled, saying that "This is the year that Linux overtakes the Mac on the desktop, and maybe my laptop will help accelerate that;" however, Industry research firm IDC says that to become the No. 2 desktop operating system in 2003. "Though Linux has proved popular as a server operating system, it has had less success on the desktop. In late 2000, IBM began offering Linux preinstalled on its A20 and T20 notebooks, but it eventually withdrew the Linux offerings. By 2007, IDC estimates that Linux will have 6% of the desktop market in terms of units, Kusnetzky said."

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pdot
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08/04, 06:01pm | report spam | close Reply |
no links

Unfortunate that there are no links on MacNN or the article it references to the IDC report and it's methodologies. Yeah, I can research it myself, but I'm not a news organization. I bet the IDC is flawed by not accounting for the old Macs still in use, just like many of the other market-share studies.

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08/04, 06:07pm | report spam | close Reply |
How will they count

all the G5's running Yellow Dog Linux? It is interesting that this story comes out on the same day as IBM's huge description of the upcoming 64 bit Linux and how well it will work using G5 Macs.

koolkid1976
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08/04, 06:10pm | report spam | close Reply |
It's B.S.!

It's just a hype to get headlines! Don't buy into it for a second unless they have numbers to back it up! The Quote goes:

"Industry research firm IDC in Framingham, Mass., said it believes that this has already happened. "Linux captured the No. 2 spot as desktop operating system in 2003"

That's one person saying he "believes". And yet MACNN is quoting it as "Industry research firm IDC says".

Mediaman_12
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08/04, 06:13pm | report spam | close Reply |
Duel Boot?

You have also got to take in to account that almost all 'desktop' linux installs will probably be also running Windows under a duel boot

rkadowns
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08/04, 06:26pm | report spam | close Reply |
So

When they get tired of playing around with a kiddie wannabe Unix, they can upgrade to the real deal with the Macintosh.

I don't doubt what the reports state. If Apple were to release OSX for x86, I doubt Linux would stay at #2 long especially after real applications start appearing for it.

Funny thing is, I don't really care...

Ruthless
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08/04, 06:39pm | report spam | close Reply |
Not according to Google.

According to the Google Zeitgeist (June 2004), Mac OS was used on 3% of the computers used to access the search engine, while 1% was Linux.

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

ApeInTheShell
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08/04, 06:57pm | report spam | close Reply |
Linux Desktops

How exactly will Linux capture 6% of the desktop market when there are so many distros? By 2007 we'll have Mac OS X 10.7 and Microsoft will have Longhorn and i seriously doubt there will be a 6% desktop market for Linux.

slider
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08/04, 06:59pm | report spam | close Reply |
Pure Speculation

There's a lot happening in the desktop OS's these days. The resent report about Apple being considered for a new computer, #2; due to the iPod? Apple is looking to make inroads into current users of Windows NT 4. Mac OS is continually evolving into a better and better OS, which left Windows behind (in my opinion, of course) a long time ago. Windows is suppose to go to Longhorn, there is no way of know how that will effect it's user base, i.e. since they have to learn a new OS anyways....... I think it's just too close and too volitile to call.

cmoney
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08/04, 07:01pm | report spam | close Reply |
more proof

that people don't care about quality or ease of use or any intangible attributes, they want cheap. linux sucks so bad on the desktop.

gunnar
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08/04, 07:25pm | report spam | close Reply |
Linux is a desktop mess

There's less software than for the Mac (including none of the biggies), huge installation and compatibility issues and hardware support is still a nightmare. Until Linux consolidates some distros and actually equals Windows in usability, most of the "6%" number has to be attributed to experimental users, not real everyday users. I mean, how many of us have installed Linux on a desktop to fool around with it and ended up never using it- my guess is a huge percentage of the 6%.

outZider
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08/04, 07:30pm | report spam | close Reply |
hm.

Yeah, no source, no data. Just a 'maybe in 2007', just like every other damned year since 1997.

fiesta cat
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08/04, 07:34pm | report spam | close Reply |
What's important..

What's important is to know if Linux is winning converts from the Windows or from the Mac OS X crowds.

My bet is, Linux is taking away from the Windows/x86 crowd more than it is from Mac OS X (if it's taking away any at all - there was a good article a while back about OS X was taking more share away from Linux than it was from Windows).

In other words, it's only relevant in that Windows users maybe declining.

MacScientist
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08/04, 07:56pm | report spam | close Reply |
Funny numbers

My bet is that they are counting all Linux installations toward the Linux Desktop share. Although personal experience is a very poor metric, it is not to be totally discounted. If Linux were as popular as claimed by IDG, it would be much more visible. Windows is dominant, but it is not at all uncommon to see large Mac-based computer labs, office flats using Macs exclusively, and even entire enterprises that are exclusively Mac. How many times have you seen similar clusters of Linux-based computers?

rkadowns
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08/04, 08:09pm | report spam | close Reply |
Shipments

I think what all this means is that now that major vendors like HP are shipping new machines with Linux preinstalled to be used as a desktop OS that very soon more pc's will ship with Linux than pc's that ship with MacOS. I don't think that it means at all that there are more than 25 million machines (or more) out there running Linux as their daily-use desktop OS. IDC reports usually are indicative of what was sold over a period of time, not what the install base is.

It does show the trend however. A 3% share of Linux to a 2% share of MacOS indicates that Linux is growing faster that MacOS. (I pulled those numbers out of my a$$ presuming Linux IS outselling MacOS) However like another poster said, at what expense? I think it is at the expense of MS.

fiesta cat
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08/04, 08:30pm | report spam | close Reply |
In retrospect..

Apple is still mostly a hardware company. Even if people are buying G5s to load Linux on them (the horror), they are still buying G5s, and it will keep costs down and R&D budgets up.

Horsepoo!!!
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08/04, 08:31pm | report spam | close Reply |
True or not...

...this is excellent news...as fiesta cat pointed out, it's converts are most likely coming from Windows...why? Because they already got the hardware to run Linux.

Not many people will buy a Mac to run a PPC flavor of Linux...some might but not as many as on the PC side. Breaking the Windows stronghold will be the first step for Mac and Linux to grow.

Linux becoming more popular means OSS becoming more popular...and OSS means more likely support for standards and easier and faster ports.

This can only be good news. I would be more than happy to see Linux reach 15% even though it's not my cup of tea as an OS.

Down with Windows.

Horsepoo!!!
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08/04, 08:33pm | report spam | close Reply |
Listen to fiesta cat...

fiesta cat has nothing but excellent logic. Linux becoming more popular on either platform means Apple is winning.

diskgolfking
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08/04, 08:57pm | report spam | close Reply |
re: no links

Marketshare refers to only new units sold. Installed base refers to the number of computers currently in use. So any marketshare analysis that involves the number of computers currently in use as opposed to just those sold is flawed.

diskgolfking
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08/04, 09:02pm | report spam | close Reply |
Desktop

Remember, the article said "desktop". Mac marketshare is being propped up by strong laptop shipments. If you look at only the desktop marketshare Macs are doing very poorly.

MDA
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08/04, 09:09pm | report spam | close Reply |
Oh come on

I find it very hard to believe that an OS that is so incredibly difficult to use, is so non intuitive, and offers virtually no technical support has over taken the Mac OS as #2. I think there is something funny with the numbers.

MDA

Mac-a-Bayan
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08/04, 09:13pm | report spam | close Reply |
The big picture

I think the bigger issue here, if this is true then that third party companys would then start investing more on Linux platform. The question then is would these products (software and hardware) be compatible with Mac. If it doesn't, then better start preparing for an even longer wait for a mac versions come out.

Another problem I see here is that these scenario is providing other options to potential market NOT to invest on Apple hardware. Apple is known as Mac or OS X only. If competing hardware companies would unanimously promote Linux then Apple will be pushed further outside the "mainstream".

I have always believe that there is a great niche amongst the global market who are wary of windows disadvantages and are willing to try an alternative OS. And Linux is making a slowly but steadily targeting that niche. (Remember Asia's Linux)

The problem with the Mac OS X is that you have to buy Apple hardware first before you could let someone try it. On the other hand in order for you to own a cool Apple hardware you should be open to try an "alternative" OS which is exclusive to Mac.

I know Apple is trying its best to win market share by making it visible thru its iPod and iTunes. (Great work actually!)But whether this news is true or not, Apple should now seriously consider making itself visible (and viable) in Linux desktop.

klinux
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08/04, 09:15pm | report spam | close Reply |
:)

When/if a soruce say that OS X is the 2nd most popular desktop OS, no one here will ever doubt the source. But any unpopular news... scream bloody biased journalist!!!
***
In addition, why do you care if there are many distros? They are still based on the Linux kernel.

LouZer
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08/04, 09:45pm | report spam | close Reply |
Re: :)

In addition, why do you care if there are many distros? They are still based on the Linux kernel.

The problem with all the distros is that each is set up differently, with different window managers, different installed software, some requiring different builds. There's no homogenoy amongst the desktops.

Not to mention that the core Linux folks are starting to get irritated at the larger vendors who are trying to make Linux easier to use ('dumbing it down' some would call it, see the GoneMe project).

And you know how geekheads are, some like Linux because it wasn't mainstream. What will they do if it becomes mainstream.

Jablabla
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08/04, 10:11pm | report spam | close Reply |
gnome and kde

are a joke compared to mac os x.

Sure, if you want to use gnome and kde go right ahead and jump into a hole.

Now if os X ran on intel that would be a coup. I bet it would be a flick the switch recompile...

LuckyJack
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08/04, 10:21pm | report spam | close Reply |
Linux users

Linux users (of which I am one) are almost entirely users who are disaffected with Windows. As mentioned previously, we use Linux because it's an alternative to whatever Microsoft puts out. Those who think software development is fun tend to stick with it. End users will dual boot and eventually give up on the Linux. It's sad, but that's the way it works.

In the broad scheme of things, this is nothing but good news. The more competition to Windows, the better. Our lovely Mac OS has benefitted from the competition, and we all win. Things get better. This number, presuming for a moment that it's accurate, does not represent any loss to Apple's revenue stream: so there's no worry or threat.

Why have I used a Mac since 1985? Becuase it works the way I think, and I can get more done more easily. And it makes me happy. Why do I use Linux? Because it's fun and challenging and I like the way it can look (sometimes). Yes, the lack of support and consistency is annoying, but that's also part of the fun (like geocaching or playing Fool's Errand (for the really, really old school)). Why do I use Windows? Because sometimes you have no choice, and it's got the one app you need.

Yes, Macs hardware is more elegant, Mac OS is more intuitive, and iApps are more perfect than any alternative, but it's a bad assumption to say that everything else is worthless c***. Only the Yankees are worthless c***, but that's another thread.

DarkVader
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08/04, 10:36pm | report spam | close Reply |
I use both...

I've got 3 linux desktops, and 4 Mac desktops at home. I've also got a linux server and a Mac server.

Yes, I use the Macs more often, and I make my living servicing Macs, but linux really is quite good these days. If I want a web surfing and office application box, linux is quite capable of handling that. It's easy to set up (no, not as easy as Mac OS - but it's got windoze beaten) and it's easy to use.

I also think free software is a great concept. I'm not going to dump Mac OS for linux, but I'm not dumping linux either. And my linux server only cost me about $400 - less than a 10 client version of Panther Server.

The primary admin tool I use on linux is also a great Mac tool, btw. Check out webmin - http://www.webmin.com/

aristotles
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08/04, 11:02pm | report spam | close Reply |
Marketshare?

How can there be marketshare for a free OS? Come on, you don't honestly think all those "linux" computer are being sold to linux enthusiasts do you? They are more likely sold to people with a pirated version of XP who don't want to pay the MS tax on the hardware.

Even those who are running linux on the desktop are most certainly dual booting for games and other software.

Linux on the desktop is going nowhere until it has major desktop apps. I would not hold one's breath for MS Office for linux or Adobe Photoshop.

Bunny Bee
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Truth hurts

> I find it very hard to believe that an OS that is so
> incredibly difficult to use, is so non intuitive, and
> offers virtually no technical support has over taken
> the Mac OS as #2. I think there is something funny
> with the numbers.

The same denial about Windows vs. MacOS is happening
with Linux vs. MacOS. The fact is that Linux runs on x86,
and that, coupled with Microsoft's ineptitude and behavior,
is enough to guarantee that Linux will overtake MacOS.

All you have to have is one out of thirty Windows users swtich
to Linux and it becomes #2. It was just a short while ago when
Apple was trying to swtich that same 3% of Windows users, and
Mac users thought it could be done.

Roehlstation
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08/04, 11:09pm | report spam | close Reply |
All Linux?

This includes all flavors of Linux no doubt, that is not at all an accurate way to count.

VValdo
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08/04, 11:29pm | report spam | close Reply |
Major Desktop Apps

>Linux on the desktop is going nowhere until it has major desktop apps. I would not hold one's breath for MS Office for linux or Adobe Photoshop.

I'm not saying the Gimp is equivalent to Photoshop, but for many non-professionals it's just as good. (There's a great App version of 2.0 for OS X at http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/)

And for most people Openoffice.org works great (it's at http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html for os x)

Both are file compatible with MS Office & Photoshop.

iKenny
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The Mac

The beautiful but tragic flaw with the Mac is this: Most agree (including many Linux users) that Mac OS X is the most advanced, intuitive, and powerful operating system available today. However, it only runs on Apple hardware, meaning a large corporation with a huge number of x86 machines is more likely to simply install Linux on them over Windows than buy all new computers to run OS X. Tragically, however, if Apple didn't make the hardware as well as the software, Mac OS X would not and could not be as intuitive and powerful as it is.

Apple's stuck. Its only choices are either to lower quality to ensure compatibility or retain quality and hope for the best.

CaptainHaddock
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08/05, 01:33am | report spam | close Reply |
Folks Ditching Windows

I highly doubt that Linux desktops are overtaking Mac desktops. However, it could happen in the next few years, as Linux improves and people disenchanted with Windows try it.

For me, Linux was a stepping-stone to the Mac. Once I shed the notion that viruses and registry corruptions were a normal part of computing, I saw the wisdom in paying a bit more for a secure machine that "just works". Especially since I'm a graphic designer.

I still have my PCs running Linux for use as file servers, but the work gets done on a Mac.

chalk_outline
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08/05, 01:46am | report spam | close Reply |
Hi MDA!!

Oh come on 151094 8/4/04, 9:09 pm EDT
I find it very hard to believe that an OS that is so incredibly difficult to use, is so non intuitive, and offers virtually no technical support has over taken the Mac OS as #2. I think there is something funny with the numbers.

MDA
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Hi MDA. Lets not f*** around here. I use OS X and Linux. Linux IS hard to get running and working properly. It now takes me fifteen minutes. It's like the take and bake oven "set it and forget it"

My sister uses Linux with KDE. She thinks she uses 2000 PRO.

If You only Use The Internet and E-mail Linux is the s***.

And are you the guy with the dock like sig with stars? It is visually pleasing..

Linux ain't bad

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Linux & MOS X are friends

I'd welcome a world were most Intel-compatible machines run on Linux, rather than Windoze. Linux is not "c***". In fact, we should view the Linux crowd as allies in our efforts against truly "crappy" software and the domination of monopolistic companies.

Open source software is a great thing, particularly in contrast to today's ridiculous, innovation halting, patent, copyright-crazy climate.

Though Linux's GUI's still have a long way to go, they have been continually evolving and there's certainly a place for Linux as well as Mac OS X. It's MS we should be worried about.

That said, I think the original article should not be taken very seriously.

kw99
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Intuitively, seems false

I don't personally know of anyone who uses Linux as their primary desktop OS. Now, I do know people who use it for their servers or who play around with it occasionally for kicks, but not on their day-to-day "I need to get my work done" computer.

I'm not saying it can't be done. If the Mac OS (X and non-X) went away tomorrow, I'd try Linux seriously before resorting to Windows. But most users are not geeks.

1800-whatever
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re: Linux & OS X are frie

' In fact, we should view the Linux crowd as allies in our efforts against truly "crappy" software and the domination of monopolistic companies.
'

Ehm, yes, but if Linux is a bigger OS than OS X , and you're a software developer trying to make money, for which OS are you going to write you're software?

ism
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re: Linux & OS X are frie

"Ehm, yes, but if Linux is a bigger OS than OS X , and you're a software developer trying to make money, for which OS are you going to write you're software?"

We wouldn't have a lot of the software there is now for mac osx if it wasn't for linux. Development for linux = development for mac os x.

PBG4 User
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re: Linux & OS X are frie

How much of Adobe's Photoshop income comes from Mac version sales? 30-40% right? Not bad for a computer platform that supposedly has a 2% marketshare. This figure belies a nugget that many developers overlook: Mac users are willing to pay for good software. Linux is the land of "free" and it may be harder to get Linux users to fork over the $$ like Mac users will.

BobK
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08/05, 09:58am | report spam | close Reply |
Hmmm...

I know many people. Many computer nerds. Don't know of one who runs Linux as a desktop.
Many of my friends, including myself have servers running some form of Linux.
But I don't see anyone running it on the desktop.

ecrelin
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bide your time�

I'm happy as h*** that Linux is all the rage, M$ is on the ropes and it aint no Ali, Longshot will be too late and it's looking real bad for their desktop "domination". While companies begin the lethargic process of review and change in the face of three (so says M$) or more years of unabated virus problems, the beancounters will demand something more. IT is beginning to "get it", M$ is getting too costly and unstable and its not getting fixed, and while Linux is and has made great strides into the Enterprise it still remains one of the least secure systems. As all who have experience with it know it is still pretty raw, without a core development environment it will mature but slowly. So while the hardware replacement cycle turns, Linux can suck up a lot of Windows territory and sites running it may be more inclined to buy PowerPC based systems with IBM's version to replace Intel or clone boxes. Apple's server management suite with XGrid's ability to manage all flavors of *nix etc will be the glue in the closet. Linux will prove too costly to support on the desktop so Macs will proliferate there. So Linux will be there, in the closet managed by Apples to support networks of Apples. Actually the TCO of apple's servers with their software rivals Linux easily, it is cheap and powerful, the real deal!(finally!). And who is to say that OS X won't ever run on IBM servers?
Office and Exchange alone cannot float a company, ask Lotus and Novell and many others who have had the "best" workgroup
Soon the home buyer will be buying a Mac "because that's what they use at the office" just like it ever was (and it looks good and works better than their windows machine with their iPod). The reseller channel will be the biggest hanger-on for M$ for these next few years as they make a lot of money pushing that garbage and Apple doesn't play well there. Anyway gotta go, Viva la kernal!

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I wonder...

I bet these numbers include the three Linux install CDs I've bought over the years, installed for about a week and then removed as more trouble than it's worth.

I wonder if they have a way of tracking how many of those Linux installs ever actually make it to be the OS booted for daily use. My guess is not. Their numbers would not be nearly so good.

DudeMac
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This is GOOD News...

...for both Mac and Linux!

Don't let the IDC fools pit Linux against Mac and etc... We're all in the same family with a Unix heritage. It's Unix/Linux versus Windows and once we knock Windows down a few notches, then we can resume any family feud that needs tending to.

With Linux slowly chipping away at Windows hype-share (oh I mean market-share), this will kill any sort of idea that we compute in some homogeneous environment and that in fact the computing world is heterogeneous and the folks out there dismissing that fact need to get a grip on reality, because a one horse town is one that can't survive. Windows is that busted bronco that needs to get at least "green" broke if anything!

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Re: his is GOOD News...

Right on, DudeMac!

UjedinjenaBosna
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Linux is better

Mac users better get a grip. You said that Mac's "just work". Well for the amount of money you guys spend on them, they better not only work, but also juggle chainsaws and jump trough hoops of fire at the same time. I would never buy a mac. I new G5 machine starts from $2000 dollars. For that money I would rather buy a USED CAR. In fact for that you could sponsor a child in a third world country with Christian children's fund for almost SEVEN years. Some kid can feed himself from age 8 to age 15 for a price that you pay on your toy so that it would "just work".

While Linux can have trouble with installation, that is because it runs mostly on hardware designed for Windows. In fact Linux, and even Windows run on more hardware than MacOS MacOS only runs on Mac hardware, and and Mac users brag how their OS never crashes.

Further more, I can upgrade my Linux system with only few keystrokes (apt-get upgrade), could you do same? I can also install and uninstall software just as easily. I can run MS office FOR WINDOWS natively on Linux using Cross over office (not that I do). Can you do that in a Mac, or would you have to run windows in an emulator and pay a license to Microsoft? (than again windows license is nothing comparing to price of a Mac). Can you run windows device drivers on Macs like you can in Linux using ndiswrapper? I can name more examples of why Linux is superior OS, but you get the idea.

Macs are overpriced garbage (just like AOL) designed to scam and trap ignorant people with too much money. While Linux has a chance of defeating MS, Apple will eventually go the way of BEos. I will personaly be glad because, compared to Apple, Microsofty is an angel of mercy.

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