Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Life without Windows
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> | Ubuntu, a user-friendly version of Linux, has been running so nicely
> | on my home PC that I decided to do an experiment. I wrote down a list
> | of tasks I normally do with Windows XP and decided to see how many of
> | them I could do on Linux.
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> http://ubuntusecrets.blogsome.com/2007/04/19/life-without-windows/
Hate to be picky, but his list of things to do with a computer is very
predictable and not very realistic, actually what first sprung to mind was
that it was all a bit pussy (sorry, subconcious has a mind of it's own).
Write text
Browse web
Get unspecified software, presumably random selection.
Download
Play music and video
Burn CDs
Print
If Linux wasn't able to do those things on his list many years ago I
wouldn't have been able to use it. You can even chuck out the GUI and still
do everything on his List in fact. Also, MS Win can do those things too
(except Vista, obviously).
So really I'd say this man's text did nothing at all to persuade people that
moving to Linux was worth the effort.
Cost of Linux isn't an issue for most, because they presumably have already
paid for their machine and the software on it.
All that really matters are the things not on his list. The extra software
that the user bought for their MS Win (not Vista, obviously), have I got a
{fill in favourite app} alternative on Linux.
In short it's like buying a car, you assume that they is an engine and a
seat and a place to put the bag of maltteezers to stop them spilling out
the bag while you zip round a roundabout.. So it is the extras that sell it
to you.
Of cause we know they are different engines and different seat etc, but many
a user Linux attracts wont give a monkeys what is under the bonnet.
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