linux and unix, an untapped goldmine for home users, or just something for servers?
This question has been bugging me for some time now and i thought i'd throw this open to discussion at AO;
linux has its pro's and cons, lots of people see it as something new and really scary to start with, but then grow accustomed to having to actually set things up themselves to get their pc's to work, unlike windoze
it has stability in its favour, ive never had a linux box crash on me once at all, ive only ever messed mine up because i was messing around with it
it can run on almost any old pc if youre not concerned with a GUI or just can't afford a new one
some of the 'con's' are that nothing supports it, try finding an ISP that offers tech support for it in Oz, its pratically impossible, i was told today by the techies at my ISP that any problems are my own problems and not theirs... not very confidence inspiring at all
hardly any games will run on it straight out of the box, only some run with wine, which ive never managed to get set up properly still...
will there ever be the linux 'revolution' we all talk so much about, what it needs is something like directx to make games easier to make and solid support from isps and such, until this happens i dont think its going forward very fast, shame to see such a quality product turning out like this really...
opinions, views and linux friendly ISP's and stuff like that is welcome to add to this thread
thanks
Mrleachy