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Its fun to see and read more and more articles on the Linux phenomena. Europeans have in general a more open mind to open-source and new tech, if you dont belive me google it :) You can read about different government changing entire systems like the french police for example. Myself tried it out and got stuck to it because of the easy way of configuring anything I wanted. But of course it was totally new to me at the time. I like to look at the world with open eyes, anything could be possible so why not try it out, if I dont like I try something else. I get the feeling that many people expect a "PC" to be Windows just because thats what your computer comes loaded with unless you build it yourself or buy a Mac. The funny thing is that a Mac and a Linux system isnt that different so I cant see the problem for the writer in this article... When I was a student I couldnt afford to buy the Spice and CAD software that was used i my school so a fellow student gave me a cd with linux and then I found lots of programs that would ruin any ones economy totally open and free to use. I still see a point in the article even though I dont agree, that the average "Joe" is used to work in a Windows based way and is not interested in learning something new. Beacause of this I understand that people return their Linux Notebooks. My wife hate computers and she hate Windows because of a system faliure that ruined all of her pictures of the birth of our baby, so today she uses Linux and she has never complained of lack of "avarage Joe" programs. She never lets me show her anything so she found out for herself how to use Linux, if she could do it anyone else could aswell I suppose. Read this list please of software that is equal to thoose in Windows and free to download and use. IE - Firefox or Opera MS Office - Open Office Itunes - Rythmbox or Songbird (yes Ipods are unofficially supported by Linux...) So no I can not agree with the writer of this article but I think its a problem of knowledge and will to look out of the box. And Its a problem that the sellers tell people to use their Notebooks as a workstation, it is NOT anything else then a SURF station. Small harddrives and low performence for a smaller size dedicated for simple tasks. For that I can not see the problem with them or their use of Linux. If its to hard to learn something new perhaps you should give up the tech stuff and return to farming or something ;) My final comment is that I have a problem of not finding the programs I run on Linux for Windows :)