Re: People hate Linux

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Mike Hall - MVP wrote:
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There is a computer super store proudly presenting Ubuntu pre-installed
systems on display in my neighborhood in UK. Well,these are the signs of
things to come.


Those signs will disappear soon enough. People would rather pay more for a Mac..



Since when are you a spokesperson for all the people in the world?

Alias


Usage figures say it all.



Statistics can be used to say almost anything. Fact: you didn't hear much about Linux on XP General from it's inception until a few years ago. You didn't see much about it in the mainstream media. Now you do. You couldn't get a preinstalled Linux machine easily back then. Now you can. Ever hear of trends? MS is on a trend, too, down the slippery slope of holding your paying customers in total disdain.

Alias


To the point where they would rather pay more for a Mac.

It doesn't say much for Linux that people would rather pay more than a Vista box costs than go for the FREE option, does it.

Consumers want a polished product.. take note.. MS is not finished yet, not hardly..



So you, too, have a reading comprehension problem. Again, no one was talking about Linux three years ago and now everyone is. MS is not finished, nor did I say it was. I wrote, and I quote, "MS is on a trend, too, down the slippery slope of holding your paying customers in total disdain." This means they are on their way out, not out already. Rome didn't fall in one day either.

If what you say about a polished product is true, Linux will be the dominant OS quite shortly being as it isn't vulnerable to malware or suffer from BSODs like Windows does.

I have been installing Ubuntu now on computers for almost two years. Those who insisted on keeping Windows have been back numerous times because they need me to can clean up their machines that are constantly infested with malware. Those who have Ubuntu have not had that need.

Alias


Nothing wrong with my comprehension that Mac is outstripping Linux even though Mac is more expensive than a Vista PC.. this puts Linux in LAST place still, even though it is FREE..

Last place, Alias, despite all of your efforts here..


Your reading comprehension is totally skewered by your ill informed bias. A trend doesn't mean first place. People were talking about Macs back in 84, it made the mainstream media and movies were even made about it. So, naturally, it has grown some. Linux is just now getting the mainstream media attention. Do you get it yet?

Alias

Ill informed bias? Apple is cock-a-hoop re their increased Mac sales. Don't blame me for people wanting something decent even though they have to pay more for it. I don't publish the sales figures.

Let people make their own choice instead of bludgeoning them with XX days to go before yet another 'more of the same' Ubuntu version.

Your own personal campaign is doing nothing for the sales and use of Linux other than getting people to look at Macs.

It is a three horse race, and Linux for desktops is the one running on aging wooden legs.

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