View Poll Results: In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widespread?

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  • 3rd party support (drivers for printers, sound cards etc)

    392 63.33%
  • Microsoft business model

    95 15.35%
  • copyright infringements

    48 7.75%
  • publicity

    156 25.20%
  • other (explain)

    159 25.69%
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    In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widespread?

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    Re: 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.
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    Re: In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widespread?

    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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    Re: In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widesprea

    Quote Originally Posted by earobinson
    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.
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    Re: In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widespread?

    Quote Originally Posted by earobinson
    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
    your reasons are vague, and unspecific. the options presented cover your options, but do it in the concrete.

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    Re: In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widesprea

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    Re: In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widespread?

    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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    Re: In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widesprea

    Users, they complicate any system I really think we should consider ways to get rid of them.

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    Re: In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widesprea

    None, just one thing: FUD
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    Re: In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widesprea

    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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