On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 13:23, Martin Schlander wrote:
I'm in Denmark :-)
And here Ubuntu (+derivatives like Mint) have at least 60% of the home user linux market, maybe even more. And steadily growing.
And therein lies a question... why? Why is Ubuntu gaining so much at the expense of others like openSUSE? Maybe because it's dead easy to install. I am amazed at how well 10.04 works, and how easy it was to install... openSUSE on the other hand... not so easy. It's not hard, but t's certainly a lot more involved and cryptic than Ubuntu is to install and use... ease of use.. ease of install go a LONG way towards acceptance and uptake. Outside of our little openSUSE Ivory Tower, I'm seeing the impact of this. Commercial vendors that used to fully support openSUSE are dropping it from their lineup of supported distributions... they support Debian/Ubuntu and RedHat/Fedora. Inconveniently the RedHard rpms fail due to dependency issues... not because the dependency doesnt' exist, but because openSUSE gives it a slightly different name. I got into a discussion about this with support at a company that recently dropped openSUSE from their lineup. For them it came down to work vs return. They said in the past few years openSUSE went from being a significant portion of their paying customer base to pretty much zero. The way the conversation went, I have a feeling I'm the only openSUSE customer they've got left :-( I'm the only one who complained to support. With essentially zero customers on openSUSE, there was no point in providing an RPM anymore. Anyway... this is beyond the scope of the original discussion. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org