On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Clarence Verge wrote: > They are pretty special and well treated "end users" I think. ;-) > Maybe your family and friends aren't a reasonable sample ?
Who is reasonable sample ? > Maybe Europe is different too. Here in the west users expect everything > to be fast and not require any thought or imagination. (or hassle!) Hmm, it is not problem of east and west, or Europe and America. Most of Linux components comes from USA - GNU movement originated there, etc. But maybe Europeans feel more uneasy about using Windows, which is 1) the product which they don't like 2) american product 3) Microsoft is owned by suspicious billionare, who is far from our vision of man with ideas. I think Europeans would accept someone like Richard Branson (Virgin corporation) - Bill Gates simply looks too mainstream and money oriented. Maybe they should invest into imagemakers, they need something which would make Microsoft look more in a opposition to traditional structures ;-) They are talking about "experience", but they eliminated one important part of computer experience - that we got in under control. > My "X" gave up on DOS software not because she couldn't use it, she couldn't > think of anything to use it for. Now she uses W95 and IE to surf, but she > sometimes needs assistance even here. The younger users (my kids) use W98 > and haven't the faintest idea how wasteful of bandwidth their activities are. Well, as long as they don't want you to maintain their systems... ;) > It's more difficult than that I think because end users expect to have the > software pre-installed. In fact, to them a computer isn't a computer unless > it will display a Wincrap logo at turn on. Yes, but Linux is oriented on users who expect software pre-installed... > And computer manufacturers are not ready for Linux. > They will resist it strongly because Billy makes their market for them.:( Hmm, deskop Linux requires even more computing power than Windows 9x series... it is comparable to Windows NT. It's sad, but true > The far east is a very good example (excepting China which has adopted Linux) > where Korea and Taiwan and Japan use the VERY latest Wincrap with a vengence > and don't seem to care if their sites and methods are unfriendly to non-win > users. I am not sure if I want to be same as Korea, Taiwan and Japan... -- http://arachne.cz/ (Arachne WWW browser for DOS+Linux / Webhosting / MP3streaming)
