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Philippe Landau wrote:
| Dave Barton wrote:
|> From: Philippe Landau
|>> You are tenacious, Dave, great :-)
|> Some may say tenacious, others would say that I am too stupid to know
|> when to give up. ;)
| You wanted to but were kind enough to honour the efforts of list members
| :-)
|
|>> Still no joy with Lilo ?
|> Did give LiLo a shot, but the situation is even worse. On boot I get
|> half a screen full of 01s and then total lockup, requiring a hardware
|> reset. Thanks for trying to help, but I am sad to say Microsoft has
|> won this box.
| Did anyone ever attempt to make a systematic survey
| of reasons why Linux remains such a small player ?
| Of course corruption on a massive scale is involved
| in selling Windows to governments and corporations.
| But why is the percentage of surfers using Linux so small ?
| Is it mainly because of the games or are the shortcomings
| of Linux an important factor and which ones most ?
|
| Kind regards Philippe
I had an older gateway which was bought new back in 98 (yes, you can
guess what os it had), the drive puked somewhere around 2000 and wiped
out the os. It was simply a matter of $$ for me to switch to linux,
200 for windows or the price of a cd for rh9, you do the math. and here
I am today. Even my son and his friends think its cool, the desktop
effects, no viruses, etc. I have a mythbox setup in the basement for
them, I find them playing sauerbraten, and cube more often than watching
tv. I didnt switch to suse until right around novell got involved, and
this list helped me a great deal to get off the ground. now I have a
mixture of distros in the house, including 10.3 on this trusty acer
laptop.
I guess what my feeling is, I dont think someone is going to switch
unless #1, they are forced to, or #2, if they are technically inclined
and like to experiment. #3, they BUY a pc with linux installed. Which
is just starting to happen mainstream today!
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