>I agree that the GNOME desktop is quite idiot friendly. > Windows users will only be slightly uncomfortable with it. >Most of my friends who try out Linux give up after it doesn't play >*any* of the media they have.
I believe that it depends upon the attitude of the people because during past one month my windows xp is corrupted,but I was using dual booted Windows and Ubuntu super os.And on that time my brother and his friends were using Ubuntu super os only but now even though after installing windows xp they prefer to work only in ubuntu and i asked them why they like ubuntu just told that they are comfortable with ubuntu because they can install even windows games [nfs,gta etc,.] in ubuntu and ubuntu super os comes with default support for all media types and also bundles with famous media players like VLC,Real Player etc.And too games and special graphical effects[like compiz,beryl,awn etc,.] which was amazed by most of my friends too.. And even student of 5th grade in delhi public school learn Linux and in Bangalore through ambedkar slum computing center the slum children [mostly they are low educated] learn Linux and using gimp for drawing art and optimizing their photography. On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Girish Venkatachalam > <girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I agree that the GNOME desktop is quite idiot friendly. > > Windows users will only be slightly uncomfortable with it. > > Most of my friends who try out Linux give up after it doesn't play > *any* of the media they have. > > > Even after all this days open source continues to appeal only to the > > intelligentsia. > > And I don't see that changing. Linux the kernel will probably see > *very* widespread use (eg. Android) but on a traditional desktop, I > don't think it can move beyond the 'intelligentsia' > > -- > Yuvi Panda T > http://yuvi.in/blog > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- राजकुमार follow me http://twitter.com/krisrajkumar _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc