Hi bryan, On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:08:48PM +0000, bryan hunt wrote: > Linux is a tinkerers OS. > > That's fine. > > I like it, you like it and they probably like it. > > Do normal people like it? > > Probably only if they suffer from severe social maladjustment.
My girlfriend is a non-technical person and doesn't really know or care that the computer she uses for email, facebook, iplayer, general web browsing and the odd bit of document editing is running Ubuntu/Firefox/OOo instead of Windows 7/IE/Office. She just wants her email, facebook, iplayer, general web browsing and the odd bit of document editing to work. And they do. As such, the concept of (dis)liking it for being Linux or Windows doesn't come into it. I would consider that more representative of a "normal" person's computing demands. Of course if she wasn't using a computer owned by me then it no doubt would have come installed with Windows just like the computer at her father's place. That probably wouldn't have mattered to her though, as a casual computer user. It's entirely possible that if she had any interest in more in-depth computer usage that she might find Windows or OS X more pleasing to use. I can only assume that someone who holds such an extreme view of Linux and expresses it on a Linux mailing list has got to be trolling, and apparently succeeding; this is one of the larger threads in recent times! Well done with your "Linux is only for tinkerers and the socially retarded" bait. It was a master-stroke to wait for someone else to post about how open source is going to make them rich; c-c-c-combo! Cheers, Andy
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