On 10/3/05, Anatoly Vorobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's because Windows is easier for them to learn and use than the > alternatives.
That's the exact misconcept the open source community (or actually, almost any MS rival) has to fight. My mom just got her first computer a year ago and until today she has no clue as to what she sees on the screen, even though she somehow manages to achieve some very basic goals with it. I bet I could have helped her a lot more remotely if she had a Linux on her desktop but everyone else in the family who were in the business of helping her veto'ed against it (and even against Firefox and Thunderbird). A properly setup Linux desktop from, let's say, last 18 months or so, shouldn't be harder to computer users to use than the equivalent Windows XP system. My feeling is that the main reason people "prefer" Windows is first and foremost because this is what they get with their computer and 99.999% of the time it's also the only system they ever heard of, let alone saw or (gasp) used. The original poster's situation falls under that explenation because his father saw Windows (and ONLY windows) in his office and wanted the same thing. On a second though - were you trolling when you wrote this? :^) --Amos ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
