** Reply to message from Druppy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:15:42 -0700
> Games? Software Familiarity? Software Availability (AutoCAD for > example)? Ease of use of Proprietary Components (what started this > thread)? The list goes on. People are lazy and scared of change they > will always favor the popular / well known over the unknown. Here we are again, the same old story from the OS/2 days. There's always reasons to not use something and side cases will always get presented. That Grand ma is happly playing games on Linux both native and flash based. Software familiarity? It's more like click memorizations for most people and even Microsoft has a tough time getting people to pay for upgrades and mostly uses tricks for force the change on them. Grandma nor high school kids or others use AutoCAD or any CAD. I did show one how to use Scribus and Dia but that was a "smart" one who actually wanted to learn new things. > Even I only have one Linux box left: why, can't Windows do the job? > Do I feel like fighting with a desktop machine to do my > browsing / email / etc? I'm thinking you've not really tried Linux in the past few years or atleast not Ubuntu. > Do I feel like not being able to play the > latest games? No, so I have a windows machine for that. And how is KPLUG interesting to you? > On top of that I still have yet to see a really good GUI in Linux. I > think there is a lot to learn from OSX for example. Everything I see > in X still seems... archaic. And the Windows Graphical User Interface( GUI ) is different from the Linux GUI's how? Are you talking the desktop or software development? X handles pixels, networking and I/O so I just don't get what you are talking about here and I'm guessing it really isn't about GUI development at the Xlib level. Doug -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
