Reminds me of...
..a saying from a good book. I'll modify it to fit
"We're all Net Neutral, it's just that some of us are more Net Neutral than others"
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Back when Windows 95 was first released most computers came with 4mb ram. I built myself a Pentium (120 Mhz) and kitted it with 64mb ram. It ran (at the time) like a dream.
I kept it until 2000 and gave it to my parents who continued using it until 2003 when they bought a digital camera and it didn't have a USB port to connec to.
The number of times people have said to me "oh my computer is running like a dog and the guy at <insert rip-off computer store name of you choice here> says I need to spend £'000s on a new one". I've usually made the computer last another 2-3 years by spending little more (and sometimes less) than £50
Both your comments more or less mirror my thoughts.
Linux is nearly there but not quite.
If I take my immediately families usage of their computers then I'd have to ensure that all their printers, webcams, cameras, video cards had Unix drivers available (and that there are easily installed!). This is no easy task. Plus my dad's business - they use sage for payroll and accounts, is this available under Unix?
It's probably a chicken and egg situation. Not enough Unix on the desktop to warrant companies bringing out a Unix version and not enough versions of software available on Unix to warrant companies changing to Unix on the desktop
Having said all that I am going to try MINT linx on my laptop to see how it goes.
I had tried Unbuntu 9.04 on an old (2000) Compaq SFF machine but the video driver would only allow 800x600 (whereas windows would do 1280x1024). It is these small niggles that prevent take-up on a greater scale.