Richard, while your analysis and experiences might be interesting for some, please discuss it further in the users mailing list, where discussion on non-development issues are welcome.
Michael, please reconsider your attitude. If you can't bring anything to the discussion except snarky and/or unconstructive comments, please do not post to this list. Cheers, Pasi On 15/02/14 18:34, Michael Fischer wrote: > I had no success to find any hard market numbers on the XP->Xubuntu > migration on non-PAE platforms so far. It seems clear, however, that > the Xubuntu image resulting from the 12.04.4 cheat is most likely: A > Very Good Computing Enviroment for Written-off Hardware. There is a > market for that. An interesting one? I doubt. > > FMF > > On 15.02.2014 17:05, Richard Elkins wrote: >> USA Notes ..... >> >> People who survey and keep track of statistics are reporting that >> home XP users have been and still are taking the easy technological >> route of upgrading to 7, either legally or illegally. I doubt if >> many home Windows users are thinking about GNU/Linux at all. >> Resistance to change and expense is at play. >> >> Hardly anyone realizes that their Android phones are running a Linux >> kernel. This is similar to the fact that MacOS and iOS users do not >> realize that their machines are running an offshoot of BSD Unix. >> People just look at the eye candy and believe that this is the "system". >> >> Commercial use is a different story. Many businesses are buying new >> or converting to Linux. Faster, more secure, and not more expensive >> than Windows. IBM and Redhat have benefited hugely from this >> continuing trend. The commercial desktops, however, are upgraded >> from XP to 7 "enterprise edition". Corporate America is locked into >> Microsoft Office and Exchange for the foreseeable future. >> >> Ask anyone on the street in America "what is Linux" and you'll >> usually get a blank look. I often have trouble in social situations >> explaining what I do. >> >> For Linux and BSD Unix users and fans, there is still a tall mountain >> to climb, especially in communications. >> >> Richard the pessimist (sometimes) >> > > > -- Pasi Lallinaho (knome) » http://open.knome.fi/ Leader of Shimmer Project and Xubuntu » http://shimmerproject.org/ Graphic artist, webdesigner, Ubuntu member » http://xubuntu.org/
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