From my experience trying to get more people to use and get to know
Hi all,
linux these are the major problems usually I have to deal with:
1) Linux is hard to install: Most people that tried Linux for the
first time a few years ago and experienced a bad install, hard to
config and no device drivers, are afraid to give linux a try again.
These are the easy to convert scenario... Usually with a Live CD or a
USB Distro we can convince them that the reality for linux is
different now.
2) There's no <put your fav application name here> port to linux: Most
people are used to a group of application and most of them doesn't
have a linux port (most have a Mac port tough), and when you try to
say you can run it on Wine or any other emulator they say "why
bothering configuring a linux to run windows applications? Just
install windows...". And showing them equivalents is no good. They
don't want to work with a similar application that *might* have all
the features.
I think that our main focus wouldn't be try to migrate windows users
to linux, but rather get the new users to start with linux.
One research here on Brazil showed that people that had a contact with
Linux first (on our public schools that uses Linux on their computers)
they tend to keep linux on their home desktops, because that's what
they are used to use on school.
For the old users that are used to Windows, we would only be able to
actually convince them if the major software companies started
releasing their software for linux too.
[]'s
Gabriel
2008/10/22 Martin Lasarsch
On Wednesday 22 October 2008 12:58:41 Stephan Binner wrote:
So any idea what are we missing, how to reach and help Windows users better (this can be also feature requrests for future distro releases like [6])? :-)
Wubi is really nice. I tried it and it's perfect for people who are afraid of the installation. This is something we should have to attract more Windows user.
-- with kind regards,
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