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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 2:36 PM, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
Jerry Houston wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
Even if it were, it's Dell's choice which version of Linux to offer
(if
at all). And even if a manufacturer decides to offer Linux, it's usually only offered on a limited range of models.
Quite right, and I'm not sure how to improve that situation right away.
I'm a Linux fan. SuSE, specifically. I have it on three machines here at home -- a laptop (on which I'm typing this), a workstation, and our domain controller. That said, it amazes me that fellow Linux enthusiasts often miss an important issue when they complain about the predominance of Windows.
PEOPLE WANT IT. Not everybody's just like us.
People "want" Windows, because they don't know any better.
There is truth to that, and fear of the unknown is a powerful form of inertia. I've had customers ask me to rescue their ancient tired windows machines which were overloaded with viruses and drive by installs, that they were unusable. Upon asking what they do with these machines, the answer is invariably email, web surfing, and the occasional letter or paper. Very few even did things like Turbo Tax or Quicken. Those are the most common show stoppers for Linux use by Ma and Pa Public. When I show them that wine will run those two packages (without belaboring the details) and absolve them of their Outlook sins, bless them with Kmail (spam filtered of course) they become converts rather quickly. I've converted such users to to KDE mostly, because its easier for them to make the transition. And I've done it with opensuse, as well as Kubuntu. All of them are happy campers after the first week. The don't WANT WINDOWS. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org