This is getting old....

I am getting so tired of reading "Is Linux ready for the desktop yet?" or "Why Linux isn't ready for the desktop", etc. It seems to be the number one topic on all of the technology based websites I visit and it has gotten to the point to where people just ask that question because they see everyone else asking that question. It is ridiculous. Let me put all of that to rest by saying.. YES.... PEOPLE.. Linux is MORE than ready for the desktop. In fact, I will say with a HIGH degree of certainty that Linux is MORE ready than say... that legacy OS called Windows. The Linux desktop (especially KDE) is so much more user friendly and more option/feature laden than Windows that one has to wonder why anyone would ever imagine windows was ready for the desktop. Windows is a pop-up happy, spy-ware infested, moments-away from a virus attack, flaky OS with a stupid design based on an all-mighty non-human-readable, forever expanding and corrupting registry file. When you install a distro from a LIVECD (mind you..a fully functional OS from a CDROM!) onto your computer you get a LOT of stuff for this "desktop". I'm referring to PCLinuxOS right now, but most others are very similiar. You get office suites, great web browsers, great net apps, games a plenty, graphics programs (near the level of Photoshop... not bad considering the low-end graphics apps you get with a windows install.. ack). You get immediately access to thousands of other apps, easily installed with a point and click from linux package managers like Synaptic or Adept, etc. When you install windows you don't even get a multimedia machine. No flash support, no java support, no office suite, no huge library of immediately available apps for FREE. You get a highly unstable, single-user, low-technology OS that is barely capable of running itself, much less being some great desktop OS like Linux.

So... give it a rest people. Linux *IS* the desktop standard that other OS's should strive to be more like. Period.