Klaas Freitag <freitag@suse.de> wrote:
Hi,
Le 08/06/2011 00:28, Helen South a écrit :
lovely idea, but return-on-investment?
if the goal is to catch new users (not necessarily newbies, but mostly windows users), it's obvious: most people don't mind about Operating System (they don't even know what it is), but of applications. agreed.
Having free, excellent and available applications can make them do the move. Having these applications available right at install time could be sufficient to make them move agreed.
this is the *users* aimed campaign, when we moctly do in programmers direction by now (obs, studio). agreed, and thats by intention I guess.
I would love if we point people to our app catalogue more in openSUSE, for exactly the reason that users do not switch because of the operating system but because of apps.
And, yeah, we kind of have something like that: Try http://en.opensuse.org/Category:Applications and find an actually not so badly organized list. As often, that could make use of more love. Also interesting is http://en.opensuse.org/Application_equivalents which lists alternatives to windows software.
regards,
Klaas
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