Comment The biggest single thing.. (Score 1) 861
Most non-technical people use their computer mainly for 2 things. Web Browsing and Email.
Email clients have come a long way in linux, and are very competitive with windows alternatives. The web browsing experience, however, falls far short.
Too much effort has to go into getting the browser to support everything needed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but no distribution supports flash, java, and streaming audio/video out of the box in the browser. Why is that? My mom or dad, grandparents, aunts and uncles.. none of them will ever take the time to figure out how to make these things work under a fresh linux install. Yet it's something that all of them are exposed to on the web. (If I had a dollar for every time my mom forwarded me a "funny" flash animation).
Seems to me that the biggest single thing linux could do to appeal to the masses would be to
have a fully functional web browser - complete with flash, java, and mplayer or gxine - included in the distribution.
Just MHO.
Email clients have come a long way in linux, and are very competitive with windows alternatives. The web browsing experience, however, falls far short.
Too much effort has to go into getting the browser to support everything needed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but no distribution supports flash, java, and streaming audio/video out of the box in the browser. Why is that? My mom or dad, grandparents, aunts and uncles.. none of them will ever take the time to figure out how to make these things work under a fresh linux install. Yet it's something that all of them are exposed to on the web. (If I had a dollar for every time my mom forwarded me a "funny" flash animation).
Seems to me that the biggest single thing linux could do to appeal to the masses would be to
have a fully functional web browser - complete with flash, java, and mplayer or gxine - included in the distribution.
Just MHO.
