Originally Posted by abachler
The fact is Linux is not the uber Windows killer the fanboy's claim. It has serious useability issues that the linux community simply has not addressed. The average user doesnt want to write their own drivers or edit the source code or grep anything. They want to play games, email pictures to grandma, and copy files, period. Professional developers are not going to spend money targetting an OS that their users do not use, that would be economic suicide. Linux fans keep saying if developers would support it the users would follow, but whats our incentive for investing billions collectively to make such a move? Money doesnt grow on trees, and there is never enough of it, so what there is will follow the path of greatest profit.