Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Tue 30th Jun 2009 16:48 UTC
While traversing about the web this afternoon, I came across a rather funny subject title for a forum post. The person asked if any "normal" people use Linux, but went on to ask forgiveness for the lack of a better word than "normal." He wonders if anyone who isn't an open source, uber-geeky, stay-up-until-dawn-exploring-code fanatic actually uses Linux. Though the congregation here at OSNews is (obviously) comprised of very many of the aforementioned fanatics (in a sense; wear the title with pride), I also believe there to be many readers who are more or less "normal," for the lack of a better word, and plenty who may fall in between both spectrums of nerdiness.
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I consider myself to be a computer geek so I'm not normal. I have a laptop that dual boots between windows and linux but its rare for me to boot into linux unless I want to update the kernel, once in it I just play around then its back to windows.
I once tried suggesting that I was going to load linux on my girlfriend's laptop and that was shot down rather quickly and she is what I would call a normal user. She plays games, web browses, checks email, and does some photo stuff. So based on my experience, normal people do not use linux and that's including my girlfriend and some of my other friends. They could just care less about it.