Dugg it at digg.com, and believed to be initially came from http://ralree.com/images/MacPCLinuxTruth.jpgTo anyone who does not understand the history here. Here it goes very briefly......
Originally MS started their mission to encourage everyone onto a computer. Started with quick and rushly made software and sold them to companies with even basic crap deals that MS didn't care loosing profit for. Amstrad ignored their offer as Sugar believed software was not worth paying for unless you could see it :P
Macs came in, showed the tidier version of an OS, but Macs are more costly.
Linux came in, to recreate what MS and Apple have done commerically to be free. Unfortunately, everything was not easily understandable. Like what does a /etc mean? It means that's the folder where all the main software configs go.
Then after thousands of different distros in attempting to show user friendly Linux, Ubuntu came recently popular in 2008. They struck a deal with Dell to provide support and they install Desktops of selected machines.
Still Linux still has it's woes, as soon something gets upgraded a bug could appear then a few days later, someone fixes it. Thankfully with Ubuntu's fairly impressive update farm keeps things in working almost. I sure get the odd headache once in a while.
Due to Ubuntu popularity, there has been recent confusion that Ubuntu is Linux. That is incorrect. Ubuntu is a popular distribution brand of Linux. Linux is the name Linus Torvalds gave to relate everything required to run Linux kernel
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