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Switching to Windows: Not as easy as you think
Calum:
--- Quote from: worker201 ---People who complain about Linux usually complain because it is not like Windows. Windows is most people's frame of reference for the personal computer.
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if people are let down that linux does not behave like windows (ie: unpredictably and incorrectly) then surely they should be happy about it?
MarathoN:
--- Quote from: Calum ---if people are let down that linux does not behave like windows (ie: unpredictably and incorrectly) then surely they should be happy about it?
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I think it's because there are too many naive people out there.
GenuineAdvantage:
You give people too much credit if you actually care about the average PC user going to linux. Even the easiest flavor of linux is hard as hell to install software to when you never touched one before and there's nobody there to help you. If you don't think this is true, you have lost touch with the outside world in that linux PC room of yours. On windows it's pretty much just "click here to install" for everything. And most PC users aren't going to bother with anything harder unless they have to. Pages and pages of bad manuals just to install an obscure driver that you need? Unless people are aspiring programers, they're never going to do that when windows is there. And one would hope that linux promoters are aware of the fact that not every PC user out there wants to be a programmer, a network guy, or anything of the sort. With that said, windows SUCKS, and as nice as linux is, I doubt will ever gain substantial ground over it. And I'm only directing this to users who imply that linux should replace windows, not the linux users who just use it and think it's better.
Refalm:
--- Quote from: GenuineAdvantage ---Even the easiest flavor of linux is hard as hell to install software to when you never touched one before and there's nobody there to help you.
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The easiest Linux's now are Ubuntu and Linspire, and this is how you install software on them:
Ubuntu
Linspire
And if the program you are looking for is somehow not on the list, it's common that they made a deb or rpm package, which is really easy to install.
It's safe to say that installing software on Linux is now easier then on Windows.
piratePenguin:
Installing Software: A GNU/Linux VS. MS Windows Comparison
I had to install Firefox on a Windows machine in school today, and now I might appreciate apt-get and friends some more.
I wonder what's the average amount of times Windows users spend clicking 'Next' to accept the default installation directory every time they want to install something...
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