--- Rahul Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > *still* counted ? > - my grandpa/wife/kid uses my Linux machine to > browse, and hasnt heard > of Linux > - you just started a cybercafe and installed linux > because it you heard > its free and has a browser > - Windows decides to use Linux as the underlying OS > - do 5 million > suckers become Linux users automatically > > - Here's a provocative one from me personally : if > you use Linux only to > use OO and Evolution are you a Linux user ? I mean > you havent a clue > about the shell or command line... > Having grown up on the CLI, its hard to think of > Evolution users > or OO users as Linux users. Maybe i cant explain it > properly, maybe its > just a personal thing - if you cant > grep/awk/sed/tr/vi, > if Linux is just a free Windows for you, what Linux > user are you ? > [snip] > I thus dont count: > - persons forced to use it > - persons who dont know they are using it > - persons who use it only becos its free and they > would use Windows if > that were free > None of these folk would stand up for Linux, so I > dont count them. > Look forward to some thoughts ... [snip]
I had been following this thread and not replied to this earlier because seriously i had no answer. So to find an answer i started discussing this with a friend of mine, and i reached a conclusion on what defines a linux user. In my opinion a linux user is one who "access" the linux system intentionally. Be that access be for browsing web or checking email or compiling a program. If a user knows he is using linux to get his work done he is a linux user. But i don't count users who have been forced to use linux as linux users. <sarcastic> Linux is an opensource product, its just there, use it if you like to and don't use it if you dont. </sarcastic> Use of linux will have different meaning for everyone. A techie can be considered as linux user if he uses linux to do his tech work where as a non-techie wil be considered a linux user if he uses linux to do his normal work. I will like add at this point that it doesn't matter if a non technical person is unaware linux altoghether. Several non tech users are even unaware of what is windows, they are unaware of its internals or its capabilities but they use it, same is the case with linux users. Even if they use linux desktops unaware of its command line abilities, a user can will be counted as a linux user. Regards VK ===== Disclamer The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
