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| Has Linux just lost the best chance it had to break into the mainstream desktop operating system market? |
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| Publication: | IT Pro | Date: | Apr 20 2009 |
Linux, even in its most accessible form, requires a little unlearning of Windows, and even something like Ubuntu – generally regarded as the most welcoming Linux distribution – occasionally has the need to send you hunting for a command line. That command line alone is likely to have sent people scuttling back to the Microsoft tent. Remove the comfort blanket of familiarity, no matter how flawed it is, and customers start wanting their Windows back, it seems.
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