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Linux Not Ready For the Masses... BULL
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"I am tired of hearing and reading that Gnu/Linux is not ready for the 'regular' or 'normal' user. Self proclaimed experts and pundits insist that these users can not, or will not, use Gnu/Linux. They give all kinds of reasons for this. I say that most of these reasons exist only in the minds of these experts and pundits.

"My first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 Model I. Since then, I owned many different computers prior to the first IBM PC that I bought..."

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