Linux Users of the World Unite

I don't sacrifice a damn thing by single-booting Linux. It's those Command-Line lovin' Open-Source Only Distros that make lay-people think we are all in the Geek Squad; they have M$Windows on the brain. If they'd ditch their crappy CLI 1990s Linux and get a modern distro like Mint or PCLOS, then they'd understand that WinDoze was trumped LONG TIME AGO by 'Big Daddy' [ask a PCLinux fan]. Now, we have our sights on the best GUI of all, Apple.

We need to make sure though, that we don't do the old 'tow the company [Linux] line' of 'install it and then fix it twice'. The End User wants to do work on their computer, not work on their computer.

The average person that actually does work on their computer thinks we are all fools for 'settling' for Linux' not-ready-for-Prime Time desktops. But you see, Linux IS ready for the desktop; Linux HAS already beaten M$Windows w/ at it's own game of User-Friendlyness. Yet the very biggest names in Linux distros are not User Friendly at all. Just like MicroSoft, they are all large multi-national corporations. Hmmmmmmm.............

An End User does not want to 'tinker' w/ the Operating System, they just want it to work. Any 2008 desktop that can't play a .AVI file without you having to 'fix' it first is a FAILURE, folks. Then OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, and Fedora are dismal embarassments to modern distros like Mint and PCLinuxOS; just like the apes are a laughing stock to the Homo Sapiens.

The End User does not want to hunt down any repositories that do not come w/ the default installation. Once again, they expect it to JUST WORK --and rightfully so.

I am a Linux End User, and I've put my money where my mouth is.

I go all the way back to the 1990s w/ Helix Gnome and Ximian Gnome, when there were no Live-CDs so you had to install everything just to even have a look [using dial-up for days on end]. Everything then was barely a GUI at all; heavy command-line typing all the time. Stuff like copy/paste functions and applicaions were a joke. Linux on the desktop was more of a TOY back then, w/ no real use; definately not anything you'd want to pay for.

You see, I can and have fixed Linux installs and used the Command Line Interface until my eyes and fingers were sore. In 2008, I have no friggin' desire to still be using the CLI ten years later from the Bad Old Days. In 2008, I want to be an End User and I don't want to fix a damn thing. I give TexStar my money and he insures that I don't have to.

The PCLinux GUI is pure Push-Button Sex, folks; I haven't used the CLI in so long that I've forgotten many of the commands. I know people call M$Windows 'the Old Peoples OS', but the PCLOS desktop experience is so evolved that my 60+ parents both single-boot Linux [PCLOS Gnome and TinyMe].

PCLinux repos offer applications that finish at the top of the Best-Dressed List for all software, regardlesss of OS [+Win +Mac +Lin]; names like Opera, VLC, NoteCase, Compix/Fusion, VirtualBox, BlueFish, Pidgin, Scribus, Deluge, BlueTooth, SongBird, AbiWord, FileZilla,TV-Time, nVidiaDock, Picasa, AdobeReader, and of course DVD::Rip.

The End User doesn't need for you to hold his hand, he needs for you to do the work for him ...preferably before he even gets the Live-CD. The End User, in turn, gives you money. Mint and PCLinux understand this concept, the Big Corps do not.