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Originally Posted by Rizla
I use windows because Linux cannot compete with the plethora of software available. I suppose I could run them under wine, but why? I'm very comfortable with unix / linux as I used it professionally, but I don't see the point. Also, it's just not as user-friendly. I don't don't want to jump through hoops or use a command-line to install a program.
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Agreed on the applications and Wine part, but Linux is definitely on the user-friendly end of the spectrum these days. With products like Ubuntu (and likely Fedora), I would rank Linux as being more user friendly than Windows. Consider the following:
- Many distributions ship as a complete system, down to the applications.
- Most hardware works out of the box, so you don't have to deal with installing drivers.
- Distributions offer centralized and trusted repositories for software.
- The GUI is easy to use, modern, and uses the popular desktop metaphor.
Oh, and I don't remember the last time I had to install a program from the command-line. It must be going onto 10 years now. The only reasons why people still use the command-line to install software are they want to or they want to use development versions of the software.