On 09/05/10 05:27, Blanford wrote:
I started trying to get people to use systems like Ubuntu for years
with little success.
We Linux people must resign ourselves to the fact that most American's
simply cannot handle products that are not commercial.
I'm not in America, my playing fields are Germany and Australia. But my
feeling is that the largest problem is a fear of being different. To
some extent this is actually not all irrational: being different means
you can't ask the next person for help. But most of it seems to be a
less rational fear of the new.
To some extent I think Apple's success has helped Linux. By moving the
market from one having one OS choice into having two, the option of
using something entirely else seems less far fetched. Additionally the
gap in noob-friendliness between Ubuntu and Windows seems to grow every
half year. And last but not least: the priorities of the users shift
more and more onto the web, desktop applications get less important,
which leads to less lock-in regarding the OS choice.
As a result I find people accepting the Ubuntu choice as a reasonable
option. Most of those people would have considered the whole Linux idea
ridiculous not long ago. Most still decide against it (the MS Office
lock in being a common reason), but at least the idea is taking serious.
And I have converted some, none of which ever looked back.
Peter
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