Jim Henderson wrote:

>> It's still not [yet] as easy to use.
> 
> Wrong.

"Easy to use" is highly subjective.

>> Most hardware companies don't supply drivers for it, and refuse to hand
>> over the information required for anybody else to write those drivers.
> 
> Wrong; this used to be the case, but not any more.

It's improving, certainly. I don't think it's there yet though.

>> If you're into gaming, forget it. Almost no big developers target that
>> platform.
> 
> Hmmm, Unreal Tournament III runs on it natively, and Cedega does a very 
> nice job for non-Linux games.  Again, maybe 5 years ago this was the 
> case, but these days there are plenty of game developers writing to 
> Linux.  It's not on par with Windows, true.  But it's improved greatly.

Sure. It's changing. (Doesn't the latest Quake engine also run there?) 
My point is that it isn't there yet.

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