News Comment This is a comment on news story: Welcome back to the hype cycle It's a reply to comment: Difficult to install? I beg to differ. by: Poprocks  Obviously this guy has never used Linux in his life. ``The rub against Linux is that it is difficult to install." That is simply not true! While certain distributions, that have been _designed_ for experts (such as Gentoo and, to a lesser extent, Slackware) can be a little bit tricky to install, many distributions such as Red Hat/Fedora, SuSE, Ark Linux, etc. can be installed quicker than Windows, and with a completely graphical install. Has this guy ever seen the Windows XP installer? Ha! I don't see how it's any easier than Slackware. The user still needs to know what a partition is, and what a filesystem is. ``Five years? The companies that have a big vested interest in capitalising on Linux's success as a server operating system are behaving as if they want to knock Microsoft off the desktop in five weeks, or maybe five months." He didn't even _acknowledge_ the fact that some of those Linux-pushing companies aren't even much better than Microsoft. Torvalds was just trying to give a realistic timeframe for desktop Linux. After all, Linux has only begun to become usable on the desktop in 2002, in my opinion, due to the advent of Mozilla 1.0 and OpenOffice.org 1.0.
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