In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widespread?
3rd party support (drivers for printers, sound cards etc)
Microsoft business model
copyright infringements
publicity
other (explain)
In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widespread?
Lack of a Twisted Sister video featuring Mark Shuttleworth as an angry, bitter schoolteacher? Other than that, I have no ideas.
Where is the option to say that windows is just better? Or to say linux just needs time, or that linux is not designed to be used by the advrage user.
i know that these are all populare reasons for why linux is not wide spread
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"Other"Originally Posted by earobinson
your reasons are vague, and unspecific. the options presented cover your options, but do it in the concrete.Originally Posted by earobinson
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I do installations for people, 90% of the time when I am dealing with a potential client I hear (replace XXXX with brother/sister/computer friend and the list goes on and on....
"my XXXX said that linux is too over my head, too hard to learn....."
For some reason people who may have tried linux 2-5 years ago can't fathom the idea that linux evolves the same way windows does...(even better in my opinion)
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Users, they complicate any system I really think we should consider ways to get rid of them.
None, just one thing: FUD
Last edited by 23meg; November 9th, 2005 at 06:35 PM.
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I voted publicity, because a lot of people whom I tell I'm using linux don't know what I'm talking about. Most people in the IT-branch know what it is because they read magazines, but the average home user never heard about linux.
Low 3rd party support is just because linux isn't widespread so manufacturers don't care for it, there's no money for them.
Last edited by Bekker; November 9th, 2005 at 06:36 PM.
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