Comment 1024 for bug 1

First of all, I want to tell that this bug is also very widespread in germany.

I am using Linux now for about 12 to 15 years now and I want to compliment all the developers that made it such a wonderful operating system. Since I used it for such a long time I saw lot's of improvements in several aspects of usability. I must say that installing Linux nowadays is so easy that everyone who is aware of installing Window$ could do it.
But from my point of view there are still severall problems that prevent people from using Linux.
First of all there is little support for drivers for some devices:
Of course, lots of devices work but some of them don't work as good as they do in windows. I have three of such devices. A scanner, which probably will never work under Linux. A atheros wlan card, which needed three months of my atention before it worked reliable and an Intel IGP 945 which still does not work as performant as in windows but improves from month to month.
On the other hand there are companies who show good support for drivers but are somehow rejected by the community. One of those examples is NVIDIA. I must say I had less problems using their drivers than any of the open source drivers for graphics cards. And their drivers are very performant.

The second thing is software.
If Linux should ever replace Microsoft, companies must see Linux as an Option for selling apps for it. While this does not hold true for standard apps like Office suites, one big software sector for average users are games.
I think games are like a vicious circle. If there were games released for linux as fast as for windows, more people would use linux. On the other hand this is difficult to realize because of the small market.
Games are the only reason I have both installed.