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[Patrick]

Hello friends.
What do you say as I have showed linux to win users. All of them make the same comment. They did not like to do command lines. If it is not click & point they are not interested. I think before linux will be used by window user we need just 3 or 4 good working OS. There are way to many linux system for window users, to much to take in at one time. We need to have 3 or 4 to put windows in its place. IMHO linux will be no farther along in the next five years than it is right now, with all the operating systems it may be even worse.
Thanks a lot

[G_Morgan]

Linux is still growing. We have 3 or 4 Linux distributions that target Windows users right now. Most the others are either too small to be relevant, are special purpose distros so don't really count, or are elite distros that should never be touched by someone who just wants to read their email (slackware, gentoo, etc).

Once you've said that your down to Ubuntu, Fedora and SUSE. There are others that are good distros (PCLinuxOS is quite nice) but other than those, none of them really have any desktop market share to speak of.

//edit - personally I just think we aren't there yet in many cases. Linux was ready for my desktop 10 years ago but I rank Bash as one of my top 10 applications and run Fluxbox on a Debian system.

We still need more commonality between desktop environments (things like the clipboard and automated menu entry). The LSB needs to be adopted and improved. We need better applications in some areas. So on...

I hear the 'too many distros' argument regularly but it doesn't make sense. The coding work is not done by the distros, most is upstream so is shared. Most people do not see the extra distros, my parents run Ubuntu but have no idea that there are hundreds of Linux variations.//