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I totally agree with the article.
I'm not a typical home user, but the rest of my relatives from around the country are. They have current model home computers, usually notebooks, most of which contain "esoteric" hardware including TPM, fingerprint readers, HDTV tuners, WI-FI, ...
The real issue is not the OS so much as the total lack of interoperability and compatibility with Windows applications used/required by K-12 students such as the Office 2007 applications such as Word, Power Point, Visio, Outlook, ...
To date the *nix office applications are stuck with 2003 or earlier file compatibility.
This is what my neighbor children encountered, so I gave them 2 licenses for Windows XP Pro and Office 2007 Professional.
To top that off many of the financial accounts I have require Internet Explorer 6 or above for server security purposes. I've tried spoofing IE with Firefox but they catch it every time and deny access.
I use Firefox sometimes for surfing non-secure servers.
I have a box running FreeBSD that started with BSD 4.x.
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