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Hey Jeff, if Linux on the desktop isn't viable, why have I had no problems using it as my main (read: ONLY) OS for the last 6 months? My extremely not-tech-savvy mother uses Linux at home, as do my siblings who don't even understand that a virus scan is useless when you don't update or run it. I don't think they know how to hook up the keyboard to the computer, but they run Linux just fine. It's ready for the desktop. It's here. It works just fine, and lots of people are switching. There's a 77% per year increase in the number of people looking at the lead-distro's page on Distrowatch. Linux is becoming popular. I know a lot of non-Computer-Science people who use it at my school, and I know a lot of kids from my high school have started coming to me saying "I want to use Linux. Help me set it up." The hardest part of Linux is setting it up, and Ubuntu makes that exceedingly easy. If you get the geek to install it for you, it's just as easy as having pre-installed Windows or OS X. >>>The only feature of iTunes that in Amarok doesn’t have or have better than is the store, and for me I can’t see myself ever using it as I think purchasing DRM encumbered music is kind of stupid. I’d rather buy the cd new or used than pay for a crippled copy of it.<<< I agree 100%. I will never purchase DRM'd music. I do not trust my music to digital forms. It's nothing but air and pixie dust. I want a physical copy. I haveHey Jeff, if Linux on the desktop isn't viable, why have I had no problems using it as my main (read: ONLY) OS for the last 6 months? My extremely not-tech-savvy mother uses Linux at home, as do my siblings who don't even understand that a virus scan is useless when you don't update or run it. I don't think they know how to hook up the keyboard to the computer, but they run Linux just fine. It's ready for the desktop. It's here. It works just fine, and lots of people are switching. There's a 77% per year increase in the number of people looking at the lead-distro's page on Distrowatch. Linux is becoming popular. I know a lot of non-Computer-Science people who use it at my school, and I know a lot of kids from my high school have started coming to me saying "I want to use Linux. Help me set it up." The hardest part of Linux is setting it up, and Ubuntu makes that exceedingly easy. If you get the geek to install it for you, it's just as easy as having pre-installed Windows or OS X. >>>The only feature of iTunes that in Amarok doesn’t have or have better than is the store, and for me I can’t see myself ever using it as I think purchasing DRM encumbered music is kind of stupid. I’d rather buy the cd new or used than pay for a crippled copy of it.<<< I agree 100%. I will never purchase DRM'd music. I do not trust my music to digital forms. It's nothing but air and pixie dust. I want a physical copy. I have most of my favourite music in both CD and vinyl forms. most of my favourite music in both CD and vinyl forms.