Part of the problem is that Maltese people are used to using copied software. So:

1) There really is no price advantage for them if they switch to Linux (its's free anyway) 2) They're not used to paying for software - so they won't buy Cedega, which enables you to run some really good Windows games on Linux

Many people seem to think that Linux tried to take over the world and failed. This, of course, is not the case. Linux never tried to take over the world - we just want to be heard as a sane alternative to Windows.

Keith

Jean Azzopardi wrote:
Yes, people are very conservative...
They expect Linux to be the same as Windows, from the GUI downwards..

Then you have the people who don't know anything about their system. A girl once told me her hard drive had 512 mb... (and her computer is fairly recent, so she was mistaking RAM for hard disk space)...

And given that a large proportion of us teenagers just use the pc for games...this gives Linux a large disadvantage.. I have switched to open source games (just finished gl-117), and I love them, but I doubt my friends will!

Wine definitely needs to improve in this regard...
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