XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Windows Devil wrote:   
   > Most Windows users are not interested in switching to Linux. No matter   
   > how hard the Linux community tries to attract new users, Windows users   
   > will stick with what they know. They might experiment with a version of   
   > Linux for a couple of days, but then abandon it in favour of buying a   
   > new laptop with the latest version of Windows pre-installed. Better the   
   > devil you know.   
      
   That has certainly (mostly) been the case in the past, but over the   
   decades the Win issues have gotten worse and the linux conditions have   
   improved.   
      
   Personally I began my conversion to linux in the W9x days when linux   
   usage was more 'demanding', and Win was graphically easier.  There was a   
   time in the past *before* that, in the 80s, when the Atari ST graphical   
   UI was *better* than MS's offering, so THAT was my choice.   
      
   I think that it is somewhat more 'telling' to examine the 'corporate' or   
   institutional or organizational experiences which would tend to 'force'   
   a given user into an OS for purposes of the 'duties' of the   
   organization; in which historically that has been Win and when the   
   .eu-type countries or jurisdictions want to break that mold, the ones   
   which are most successful find that the best way to do it is to convert   
   those users to open-source applications and THEN to the open-source OS   
   to run those.  In doing so, I think it is wiser for the chosen linux OS   
   to be something more 'generic' and popular w/in the linux community   
   than, say, LiMux* was.   
      
   Munich started that adventure way back in '04; things have changed a LOT   
   since then.   
      
   * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux   
      
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)