On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > You are basically saying it's better to stay with the devil you know.
I did not want to say, that I find it better to stay with the devil I know - that's the behaviour of the users (regardless what the users say, that's the behaviour I observe. > I disagree because my experiences are not like yours. > Firstly, I never recommend removing a users current installation and > leaving them with something they are unfamiliar. I always help them a lot in the beginning - I don't leave them alone. However, of course, it is the unfamiliar thing in the beginning. > I always set up machines to dual boot and leave them with the option to > go back to their existing installation. > This has a very high switchover rate, since they can compare one to the > other and find the Linux installation is far more reliable and > dependable. I never do dual-boot installations - tried it a few times and it is additional complexity added. However, maybe I should try your way of offering the dual-boot. > I talking about housewives, psychiatrists, clergymen, plumbers, care workers. > These are the people I have deployed to and they do not look back. I cannot say that I have such a wide-spread target audience. I think there are two types of "normal users": Those who are interested in computers and do more than just email and web-surfing and those who are not. The latter is usually no problem to migrate. - However, this is always home users somehow where in general is less problematic. The problems arise when you have people who are e.g. working as freelancers and need to communicate a lot with other companies. >From your post, it seems you actually do not have any Linux experience to >compare. Oh I have several different experiences: I do manage the server at a very small company (3-4 people) and I helped migrating users with less and with more IT knowledge. - Far not so many as you - I think, but enough to know the pitfalls, as I can look back also to a few failures also (failure in the sense, that people did not continue to use Ubuntu or still use it for particular tasks only). I myself are facing the biggest hurdles as I am running my Ubuntu in a Windows-only environment in the office where whole IT department is fully Microsoft-conform. Just to make it clear: I do not want to say, that Linux or Ubuntu is failing. It's just that I am experiencing more issues during the last months than before. So this is, why I don't even understand the efforts put into discussions of shopping lenses and the like - such things are worth discussing and implementing when everything else is running fine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu 4 dz, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share Status in Club Distro: Confirmed Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: New Status in dylan.NET.Reflection: Invalid Status in dylan.NET: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in LibreOffice: In Progress Status in The Linux Kernel: New Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: In Progress Status in The Linux OS Project: In Progress Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: In Progress Status in Tabuntu: Invalid Status in A simple player to online TV streaming: Invalid Status in Tv-Player: Invalid Status in Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team Meta Project: In Progress Status in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in Arch Linux: Confirmed Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Debian: In Progress Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed Status in openSUSE: In Progress Status in Tilix Linux: New Bug description: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug which Ubuntu and other projects are meant to fix. As the philosophy of the Ubuntu Project states, "Our work is driven by a belief that software should be free and accessible to all." "Ubuntu software is free. Always was, always will be. Free software gives everyone the freedom to use it however they want and share with whoever they like. This freedom has huge benefits. At one end of the spectrum it enables the Ubuntu community to grow and share its collective experience and expertise to continually improve all things Ubuntu. At the other, we are able to give access to essential software for those who couldn’t otherwise afford it – an advantage that’s keenly felt by individuals and organisations all over the world." * http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/our-philosophy Non-free software leaves users at the mercy of the software owner and concentrates control over the technology which powers our society into the hands of a few. Additionally, proprietary software stifles innovation, maintains artificial scarcities, and enables malicious anti-features such as DRM, surveillance, and other monopolistic practices. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. 2. Attempt to buy a machine without any proprietary software. What happens: Almost always, a majority of PCs for sale have Microsoft Windows pre- installed. In the rare cases that they come with a GNU/Linux operating system or no operating system at all, the drivers and BIOS may be proprietary. What should happen: A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software. * http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html * http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines * http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
