Makes me wonder - why hasn't anyone made a Linux desktop environments that tries to mimic Windows look and behaviour as much as possible? IP/patent issues maybe?
There would be a huge market for something like that, as this situation shows.
There would be a huge market for something like that, as this situation shows.
At the end of the day, any OS that requires some command-line at any point has failed to appeal to the mass market. Instead of Windows, Linux would be better off mimicking Mac as it tries to be as unobtrusive as possible while still leaving the command-line power intact.
Linux needs to escape the Uncanny Valley of general purpose computing to become more mainstream.
I think its good enough since I've managed to convert at least 42 user from Windows to that. Its been almost 2years and they still stick with that.