I'm thinking that we need a page devoted to Windows programs and their free equivalents. That's going to be a lot of work, but I think it's something that needs to be there. Or just link to a pre-existing one such as http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software
That's my opinion. Jacob > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:17:53PM +1000, Sunnz wrote: > >> And I think people do know Linux is superior in a lot of aspect... but >> Linux just seem to be "for advanced users" and average joes out there >> proactively claims that they don't need 'advanced features'. > > One problem here is that a lot of people know their certain software > packages > and want to stick to them. There are alternatives, but people don't want > to > learn how to use a different program to do the same thing - even if there > isn't really any learning involved, the thought that there might be still > puts > them off. This is even worse with the software where there aren't > alternatives > - one that springs to mind is AutoCAD (My SO is an architect - she uses > that > all the time, and there isn't anything even close for the non-Windows > world > that I know about)... > >> I think if we were to promote Linux to the everyday home user, it must >> be simple and minimalist, easy to install... showing a video of >> installing Feisty on a Windows machines without destroying Windows >> would be useful. > > There is apparantly an unofficial version of Ubuntu that comes as a > windows > MSI file. You just download it and install it as if it's a normal windows > program, and it installs Ubuntu somewhere (I've no idea where - the guy > who > told me about it claims that it didn't repartition his drive, but his > windows > drive was NTFS) and installs a bootloader for you to select Ubuntu or > Windows > at boot time. > > -- > Graham Cox > > [We] use bad software and bad machines for the wrong things. > -- R.W. Hamming > _______________________________________________ > Advocate mailing list > [email protected] > http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate > _______________________________________________ Advocate mailing list [email protected] http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate
