30 Jul
2010
30 Jul
'10
6:59 a.m.
On Friday 30 July 2010 6:27:57 am Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
where did you get these figures from?
"Web statistics suggest that Ubuntu's share of Linux desktop usage is about
50%"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)
ok not 60% like i had mentioned before, had read that somewhere else.
Due to the method used to record these figures, they tend to vary from source
to source.
in my part of the country, most first time users who
start with Ubuntu give
up and go back to doze - a first time user should be given mandriva or
suse where everything works out of the box. Not ubuntu - where a lot of
things are b0rked and need tuning.
i think most users shift back to doze because of unfamiliarity and rigidness.
People who learn by memorizing the steps involved in doing a task(like first
click here, then click there, then type this etc) rather than what they are
actually doing will generally find it hard to get accustomed to a different
environment. Availability of Application is an issue to but I think its a
smaller issue considering that most Commercial application have a equally
powerful Free alternative albeit usually with a different interface (like
gimp). Hardware problems and "out of box"ness i think is an even smaller
issue.
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- Yohan Pereira.