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Originally Posted by dfiler
Tell that to my dad when he goes to use turbo tax or plugs in a camcorder. Or even just tries to open MS Office documents from his grad students. A few hundred extra bucks ensures that his tools work as expected.
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My wife is a grad student, and has been for the past two years. She's used OOo/Linux or NeoOffice/Mac for every paper she's done during that time, and never had a problem with being unable to open other people's documents or them being unable to open hers. So the MS-Office thing is a red herring.
TurboTax/Quicken/etc don't work on my Mac, either, so I don't see how that's a strike against Linux unless you're also willing to say that the iMac isn't consumer-ready.
The camcorder thing is legit. Linux doesn't have a good consumer video editing program. For stills, though, I'll take digiKam over iPhoto any day.
Linux is improving and continues to improve, at a rate that can hardly be believed. It hasn't caught up yet, but it's getting closer.