Why people choose Microsoft.

[emh]

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General Motors announces a great new car; every morning u go out, measure the temperature and humidity, and get out some tools and set your engine for optimal performance...

This analogy in no way, shape, or form applies to using Linux today, especially distros like Red Hat or Mandrake (and even newcomers like Lycoris, Lindows, or Xandros).  You install it once, you configure some things once, and they stay that way.  It might have been true four or five years ago, but it's not the case today.  Now, you can continue to try to optimize your system if you want, but even if you do absolutely nothing else after installing it, you will still have a completely usable and easy-to-use system.

 

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3. Kazaa doesn't work in Linux.... i've tried Gnutella and although it works, it's not nearly as good because it doesn't filter out fake files, not as many clients and so forth.

You can get Kazaa to work in Wine if you wanted to.  I recommend Kazaa lite, though.  You would have an easier time running it via Wine.

[mushrooomprince]

People worry to much about the hardware and not enough about the software.

The computer is simply a body that houses the operating system. Sort of like body and soul.

What good would your machine be if it had no OS ?


The biggest reason poeple choose windows is because they don't even think about other options. They dont even know their are other options.

Go around and ask poeple about Linux and Mac os.

Youll get responses such as " What the fuck is linux ?

and " What ? I never knew apple was still in business"

[Refalm]

quote:mushrooomprince: The biggest reason poeple choose windows is because they don't even think about other options. They dont even know their are other options.

Go around and ask poeple about Linux and Mac os.

Youll get responses such as " What the fuck is linux ?

and " What ? I never knew apple was still in business"

That means that the majority of people just don't care what software they're running. It just has to do the job. For example, the majority of people have no idea what Internet Explorer is, they just click on the blue "e" logo if they want internet, because a yellow balloon pop-up told them to. What if they clicked a red lizard instead of the blue "e"? It doesn't make any difference to them, except that it doesn't crash af often as the blue "e" thingy, and it first loads the page and then the pictures.
And, after spending an hour on Red Hat Linux, people will easily find "Internet", "E-mail", "Buddy chat", etc. when clicking on the red hat.

[X123]

In my opinion linux is more n00b friendly than windows. And whoever said kazaa wouldn't work in linux is wrong. The only reason I don't use linux is because of my fucking NTL broadband connection not being supported by it.

[Refalm]

quote:Originally posted by The Knife Thrower: The only reason I don't use linux is because of my fucking NTL broadband connection not being supported by it.

What is NTL and why doesn't it work in Linux? I've even seen USB ADSL modems work in Linux  

[theangelofdeath69]

Well, I know several System Administrators...

I tell you, never ind their pick of OS, one of my schools sat there for ages pushing a button on a computer wondering why it wouldn't turn on until a student pointed out that he was pushing the reset button and it wasn't plugged in...

Now, who really cares what OS they want