“I’ve been tracking desktop Linux uptake for around a decade. In
that time, the platform has moved from an environment suited only
to the technorati and those well versed in Unix windowing systems,
to something which now has the polish and familiarity for the
mainstream.“In fact, desktop Linux has matured so well that you could
deploy it in a greenfields scenario, i.e, one where there were no
computers used previously, and the users would take to it as
quickly as they would acclimatise to Windows…”