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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 06 2012 @ 08:13 PM EDT

I may be missing something?

My housemate would use Linux, if they meet two qualifications: * 7/24 hour support; * Can boot up and use the system without using a mouse, keyboard, or monitor;

Can't help with the first bullet. I assume you mean paid for 24/7 support? I wonder how many home users go for that for any OS? I note my ISP can do that for Windows, but not anything else. Quick search for linux suggested plenty of commercial support but not aimed at home users, not quite what you want. Did not search for long.

Can boot up and use system without mouse, keyboard or monitor. What do you mean? Do you mean logging onto a headless machine from another machine? I would have though linux was streets ahead on that one. Else how do you intend to interact with such a machine irrespective of the OS?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 06 2012 @ 08:33 PM EDT
* Can boot up and use the system without using a mouse, keyboard, or monitor;

If you mean boot directly to a graphical desktop with no user input or login
needed, linux can do that. Some distros do that by default.

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