I have tried to use linux as a desktop and back out. It just seemed to me that everything that can be done w/ windows w/ a few clicks needed extreme effort to work around in linux. ie. All my friends uses msn messenger, then I would use pidgin, but then I can use webcam And then setting up webcam on linux is another story.
Back when I was trying linux, there are tons of bittorrent clients for windows but there was only azureus as a more viable option. I can't use a software that I like. I couldn't update my harmony remote. I couldn't use virtualdub to compress my video at that time ( I am sure there were something else, but I gave up) Those coupon printing sites doesn't work with linux. iTune is another hassle. At the end, I feel I really OS really doesn't matter to me, why spend so much time on something I don't care, I will just use windows. If you want a server, it's a totally different story, you can setup LAMP stack in no time, where as a lot of php opensource projects did not test well w/ windows. On May 8, 7:15 pm, Peter Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
