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| John Stevenson:
--- Quote from: Baron on April 22, 2014, 10:11:24 AM --- Go and download yourself a live CD/DVD image and burn it to a disc. Stick it into the drive and boot from it. There are plenty of distributions to choose from. Over 300 at last count. --- End quote --- So that's immediately put most Windows users off who have been brought up on 3 operating systems. Which one do you choose out of the 300 ? stick a pin in ? |
| awemawson:
--- Quote from: John Stevenson on April 22, 2014, 11:35:16 AM --- --- Quote from: Baron on April 22, 2014, 10:11:24 AM --- Go and download yourself a live CD/DVD image and burn it to a disc. Stick it into the drive and boot from it. There are plenty of distributions to choose from. Over 300 at last count. --- End quote --- So that's immediately put most Windows users off who have been brought up on 3 operating systems. Which one do you choose out of the 300 ? stick a pin in ? --- End quote --- Like him or loath him that is one good thing Bill Gates did - offer a platform that was pretty much universally standardised. However 'non ideal' the standard is it creates far easier inter working between people continents apart. I remember when IBM offered 'standard interfaces' on the first IBM PC, the mini computer manufacturers thought they were mad as propriety interfaces held customers captive. In practise it opened the market and at the time IBM prospered. |
| John Stevenson:
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| CrazyModder:
--- Quote from: John Stevenson on April 22, 2014, 11:35:16 AM --- --- Quote from: Baron on April 22, 2014, 10:11:24 AM --- Go and download yourself a live CD/DVD image and burn it to a disc. Stick it into the drive and boot from it. There are plenty of distributions to choose from. Over 300 at last count. --- End quote --- So that's immediately put most Windows users off who have been brought up on 3 operating systems. Which one do you choose out of the 300 ? stick a pin in ? --- End quote --- Someone who is interested in the system will, with a quick google search, immediately find the beginner friendly distributions that have been mentioned here. That's not 300, but 2 or 3 big ones - which one the beginner picks is totally unimportant and more of a flavour decision. If the person balks at that first step, regarding that first decision as chore instead of a joyful experience, then indeed Linux is most probably not for him. And that's not an attack against anyone - I know bright and experienced people who simply do not want such choices. People who have zero interest in how the PC works, what it does "behind the curtain" and just want to browse the 'net, do some email, maybe Skype, some office work etc. have little incentive to look for Linux indeed. If someone wants the features offered by Linux, differenciating it from Windows, then it's there, free to grab at anytime. One of those features is that every single piece of the OS can be influenced, and obviously this power puts some responsibility on the user. Needless to say, that's exactly what the Linux folks want. I myself develop and run software on Linux servers at work, using a windows PC (no choice, I would prefer a Linux workstation as it would integrate more seamless with the Linux servers). At home, I have small Linux servers for my networking needs (and for fun), but the PC I write this on is Windows, again. Simply because I am totally happy with Windows 7 and play the occasional game - that's not the forte of Linux. I may convert my main PC to Linux in many years if Windows 7 should become unusable (why would it?) and the current Windows flavour at that moment (Win 9? Win 10?) will not deviate massively from Windows 8, which I tried and found unacceptable. |
| BaronJ:
--- Quote from: John Stevenson on April 22, 2014, 01:10:15 PM --- :lol: --- End quote --- That's cruelty to harmless Tux... :palm: |
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