This is my reaction to Tsu Dho Nimh's "Migrating to Linux not easy for Windows users" featured on Linuxworld.com recently. It's not a response, I'm not challenging his opinions, which I feel are not only valid, but mostly right, it's just a reaction.
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Nice to see the term "user" instead of "loser" or whatever used. But anyway - another problem would-be converts that have only ever used Win9x series or NT, is that they have no clue as to the development cycle of a distro.
Buying and successfully installing a distro may well be seen as not worth the hassle if the system will be perceived at being out of date in just 6 months or so time.
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As to the article, I feel Adam has hit the nail on the head here, sure it's not applicable to everything/one, nothing particularly fresh but does sum up the mature comments made about the article it is in response to.
Nice to see the term "user" instead of "loser" or whatever used. But anyway - another problem would-be converts that have only ever used Win9x series or NT, is that they have no clue as to the development cycle of a distro.
Buying and successfully installing a distro may well be seen as not worth the hassle if the system will be perceived at being out of date in just 6 months or so time.
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As to the article, I feel Adam has hit the nail on the head here, sure it's not applicable to everything/one, nothing particularly fresh but does sum up the mature comments made about the article it is in response to.