I had an interesting conversation today with my friend, who is not a gamer and is not very tech-savvy He uses a Windows XP laptop.
Me: “Why don’t you try Linux?”
Friend: “Why should I?”
Me: “Well, it’s free, and legally so.”
Friend: “I got my XP for free.”
We come to a horrible paradox. Yes, law enforcement of software application copyright is needed, but the problem is such software is mosty spread through BitTorrent. Here, not many people actually profit from selling stuff they download, no: they’re well-off enough, but they download a copy for themselves. I am a fan of freedom of file sharing, but I’m also a fan of legal, and especially FREE software. therefore, it is impossible to have both in the same tech world we live in. Where to now?
June 10th, 2008 at 13:06
“The” real reason???? It’s one reason.But bittorrent isn’t the only method for getting windows it comes with the machine too.lol Everyone bought a computer without Windows?
There are other reasons: 1.Lack of variety of programs that most people like.
2.Variety of Games
3.Marketing
4.Lack of knowledge about computers and what an operating system is by a large portion of windows users.
The real reason is there are many reasons.
We just have to keep letting people know what the advantages are of Linux and show others how to use it.
June 10th, 2008 at 20:39
“The real reason is there are many reasons”
No, there is only one reason - Linux itself. It is that simple. Stop looking for “reasons” elsewhere. Example: Mandriva Spring One (KDE) (and not only Mandriva), both Firefox and Konqueror freeze and crash while browsing some of the popular websites (not to mention incorrect renderring of web some pages). Firefox on Windoz does not do that. WHY?
I know it is a very ignorant of me, but still… My expectations of decent web browsing experince are not out of this world.
June 11th, 2008 at 14:28
Firefox does crash on Windows - and chews up a lot of RAM.
June 12th, 2008 at 15:57
“Firefox does crash on Windows”,
Agreed, but not as much as it does in Linux (an by a very wide margin).
June 23rd, 2008 at 18:33
Only had the ‘Fox crash one once in openSuse, but i did have 245 open tabs
for me however the ‘Fox is much slower than Konqueror in KDE
August 9th, 2008 at 04:19
One of the biggest problems is the packagemanagement. It isn’t as easy to share software as in windows. Under Linux ever tried to take a package from PC A and installed it to PC B and PC B has no internet?