Plenty of people use GNU/Linux and more and more are joining them every day. It isn't perfect for every task (e.g., I still use either Mac OS X or Windows for Adobe Creative Suite), but the days of average users having to put up with difficult operating system and application installations and updates are gone. Advanced users who want fine control can still have it, but easy installers, systems such as the Asus Eee PC and Shuttle KPC that ship with GNU/Linux pre-installed, and user-friendly distributions such as Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Foresight Linux are slowly bringing GNU/Linux to the masses.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Plenty of people use GNU/Linux and more and more are joining them every day. It isn't perfect for every task (e.g., I still use either Mac OS X or Windows for Adobe Creative Suite), but the days of average users having to put up with difficult operating system and application installations and updates are gone. Advanced users who want fine control can still have it, but easy installers, systems such as the Asus Eee PC and Shuttle KPC that ship with GNU/Linux pre-installed, and user-friendly distributions such as Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Foresight Linux are slowly bringing GNU/Linux to the masses.