Linked by Joshua Boyles on Wed 19th May 2004 20:08 UTC
By the time Longhorn comes out I'm sure everyone will be sick of the subject "windows vs linux." Will longhorn finally destroy that pesky linux and mark another decade of Microsoft's monopoly, or will the underdog come out with a stunning upset and send a multi billion dollar company to it's grave?
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People avoid change that is all there is to it. My brother has tried for years to get me to go linux so a couple of months ago I said ok. You know what there are too many flavors of linux. It took me for ever to choose one. When I would ask for advice it seemed like people were talking out of their butts. I actuall got "redhat's awesome" as an answer. what does that say? I installed for different distros each had it's own quirks so my knowledge of the last one didn't help with the next. It was so frusterating to not understand it instantly that I would move on to the next distro hoping that it would be more "intuative." Fact is that to someone who has worked with windows their whole life not much of linux is intuative. It just different enough that you get lost even though to someone who is familliar with it it's nothing. My point is people aren't going to just say, "Oh I heard that linux is really good so I'm going to change everything that has been working for me up until now." I would probably be running linux right now if I had had my brother around to help me. But I didn't all the conversion stories I have ever heard go something like: "So I installed linux on my grandma's computer and showed her how to email and write stuff in abiword. She loves it and it's never crashed." That's great but with a one on one requirment it's going to take linux a while to conquer the world. AS for me I went back to xp which has never given me a problem unless I was messing with something that I no nothing about and shouldn't have been doing. That's right no freezes no crashes nothing coming up on two years. Like I said at the beginning people don't like to change and as a people the change to linux was hard enough that I missed all the benefits that people talk about and was frusterated that I couldn't do anything. I went from an person who feels in control of his computer to a person who doesn't know a thing about his computer just by putting linux on it. I've been snowboarding for years now don't expect me to become a skiier and have to learn everything over again because you tell me it's better.