Don't forget about those of us in the middle. I'm not a techie, but yet
don't play video games. Probably 95% of my use is spread across web surfing,
email, OpenOffice, Rhythmbox, gThumb. I am also learning to use Gimp to
make wallpapers so I'll add that in. All of these are handled very well with
fully free GNU/Linux. If we only address the computer software for now (not
consoles), I wonder what percentage of people use the computer for gaming and
what percentage only use it for "every day" tasks, such as internet, email,
music, video, pictures, documents. I have seen some claims that the vast
majority are not gamers, so if one of our goals is to move people from
proprietary to fully-free systems, there should be a large group of users for
which this is possible. The main obstacles I see are:
1) Systems come preinstalled with proprietary software.
2) People are used to systems with proprietary software and are resistant to
change.
I also have a suggestion, and I appreciate comments from anyone. Would it be
possible to have a technical section of the forums and an
activist/promotional section of the forums? It might make it easier for
people to get solutions to the "how do I ..." questions without reading
through the philosophical posts. I don't mind all of it together; in fact I
enjoy reading all the posts. I was just wondering if anyone thinks it might
help the users, especially as we add users.
