re: Someone explain Linux to me?

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Ya'll can talk Linux up all you want. The simple fact is that it is not for the masses.

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Many a grandma runs Linux these days without issue.

The only reason it's not for the masses is because people continue to say it's not for the masses, so people continue to be afraid to try it, and so it continues to be a minority desktop, and so commercial software companies continue to ignore it, so people can continue to say it's not for the masses.

The more people that try it and realize the benefits, the better. Install it on your parents' computer when Windows goes to shite. They will call you less often. Install it on an old machine for your kids, there's tons of browser games for them to play. Put it on a partition on your own machine to play around with. It's fun when you want it to be, and it gets the hell out of your way when you need to get shite done.

Windows annoys the hell out of me these days, I dread having to use it on someone else's machine. Linux is a better OS in every respect. The only thing it needs is higher adoption, and the increased commercial attention that comes along with that.

Or we can just wait a few more years as more stuff moves to the browser.