Klaas Freitag <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > >> Le 08/06/2011 00:28, Helen South a écrit : >> > lovely idea, but return-on-investment? >> >> if the goal is to catch new users (not necessarily newbies, but >mostly >> windows users), it's obvious: most people don't mind about Operating >> System (they don't even know what it is), but of applications. >agreed. > >> Having free, excellent and available applications can make them do >the >> move. Having these applications available right at install time could >> be sufficient to make them move >agreed. > >> this is the *users* aimed campaign, when we moctly do in programmers >> direction by now (obs, studio). >agreed, and thats by intention I guess. > >I would love if we point people to our app catalogue more in openSUSE, >for exactly the reason that users do not switch because of the >operating >system but because of apps. > >And, yeah, we kind of have something like that: Try > http://en.opensuse.org/Category:Applications >and find an actually not so badly organized list. As often, that could >make use of more love. Also interesting is > http://en.opensuse.org/Application_equivalents >which lists alternatives to windows software. > >regards, > >Klaas > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
I also recommend using linuxalt.com its a easy to follow side by side list of windows v Linux or open source apps like cinepaint Gimp or krita for PhotoShop. -- Kind Regards Mr Stuart Tanner Bolton Linux 24 Vincent Street Heaton Bolton BL1 4SA United Kingdom TEL:+44(0)1204410474 MOB:+44(0)7868028028 Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
