Why use Microsoft?
1. It is easier
2. Less support/training required
3. More software, more choice
4. Works better, easier and with more choice so company makes more money
Why use Linux
1. As a protest
2. .....?
Why use Microsoft?
1. It is easier
2. Less support/training required
3. More software, more choice
4. Works better, easier and with more choice so company makes more money
Why use Linux
1. As a protest
2. .....?
No, not trolls, just people who think they know what they are on about, but clearly don't...Time to leave, the trolls have arrived
I would say exactly the OPPOSITE to all your points.
1. No not really. As a mac user, I find windows messy at best. Even the command line is crippled in windows when you want it as a last resort.
2. Less support? You must be joking. The entire IT budgets are spent on support, cleaning viruses, restoring data and training users. Linux won't be much different except for viruses and software purchase costs.
3. Sometimes there is more, sometimes there is less. Linux is certainly better for free high quality apps.
4. No, no, and probably no. Viruses, crashes, no more updates, upgrade costs, annoying interface...
It is easy to close your eyes and run like a headless chicken scared of OS change. Only iOS is worse than Windows, yet somehow it is taking over the IT world. If linux/android doesn't succeed the future is not very bright or free.
1. As a single computer Mac User . Which is easiest to network, setup a network with roaming profiles, shared resources etc. New PC arrives here, join domain, log on and wait and everything is done thanks to Group Policy. If I need specific software I can use Windows Deployment Services with images across the network.
2. Maybe in the 90s and maybe with companys running older tech. We haven't had to fix an infected computer here in 15 years, no need to restore data and minimal training.
3. There is more Windows software. You cannot dispute this. Linux/OSX is better for free high quality? It depends on your definition of quality. Please tell me some heavily used software that is also available on Linux/OSX and performs better on Linux/OSX (Adobe offerings are the same).
4. Viruses? Not had one, crashes - Hardly ever, we have some buggy software (Nitro PDF) which causes us to restart 1 machine once a week. Updates - yes, is linux never updated?. Upgrade costs - none (check out Microsoft MAPS).
Companies will choose what is the most cost effective for them. This may not be the initial cost, it may not be software licensing, it is the long term productivity, ease of use and interoperability of the business. Employees will then use that system at home as it is familier and allows them to transfer files easily etc. etc.
Rose tinted, limited view goggles anyone?
Monopoly? Hardly a monopoly, how may mac users do you think there is?
Then we've got the majority of people access the internet via phones and tablets. Suddenly monopoly seems rather an emotive word.
and then you are paying for overpriced shareware utilities.
Heaven forbid anyone actually pay for software that they use.
But all of those things are available on Windows too as it is the most widely supported operating system out there. I don't see your point....twist and turn my words? However, some poor proprietary ftp client or even MS Office are usually better replaced with free and open software, reinvesting money to wages and infrastructure while supporting proper ISO standard data formats and transfer protocols.
So.. total saving is maybe £70/new computer on the OS and very low Office suite cost. You expect to retrain people who are familiar with Windows and who are NOT techies for £70?
MS Windows was declared a monopoly by the courts.
Why use Microsoft?
1. It is easier
2. Less support/training required
3. More software, more choice
4. Works better, easier and with more choice so company makes more money
Why use Linux
1. As a protest
2. .....?
Linux for home personal stuff. It's this last category that Linux excels in
TBH Linux should have really taken over the consumer desktop market by now, but there's a kind of snobbery that makes many linux users want to be a bit 'special' and that's a key reason why it's only taken a tiny %age of the desktop market. While it works quite differently from windows 'under the hood' the vast majority of ordinary users never go under the hood with windows either, so that makes no odds. Android is a great example of what can be achieved if you decide to make Linux into a popular OS that everyone will use.
I didn't realise that Android was a version of Linux interesting
Most people I know use a tablet of some kind for computing rather than a desktop or laptop obviously for photo editing a tablet isn't yet as good
Let's look at it from a different angle...
I am a muggle and don't know about PCs. I take the advice and install a Linux distro on my PC and download an open office derivative.
All goes fine, then a year later my PC won't boot. Where do I go? Who can fix it? I need my files, I don't have a backup.
What do they do in this situation? What face to face support is available? What will Dell do when you phone them up?
Although most are freaky nerds that will get you to "go deep" with scary commands as they don't know the easy ways to fix things. One of the biggest problem, with Linux from my perspective.
Kill windows without a backup and you need Linux? Complete rubbish!
You are just making things up now.
Windows will repair itself or roll back or you can retrieve files manually.
Precisely that is going to scare most people away. In many cases, the user has already gone through a trauma searching online to find the information with unfamiliar terminology, not in the user realm. He then pastes in some gobbledegook he was given in a forum. A whole load of text scrolls up his screen. He doesn't know if the command worked or not. You see this a lot in the forums. If he hasn't already given up, he pastes all the text back into the forum. and the guy will say, Oh, did you do a so and so first? Whats a so and so?. And so he gets the next command to paste in. Working blindly this way is not learning. And in most cases not necessary. If only the geek knew the easy way. The command line is a terrible UI for non-techies, with no learnability or discover-ability, no obvious undo. No clear or consistent feedback. Hidden commands. Hidden and inconsistent command options. No familiar terms and places to go. It's just too far removed from what normal users have ever seen. Sadly it's advice like that that scares the bajingos out of people and keeps Linux out of the mainstream. Take a look at what Android has achieved in comparison.the basic command line usage is not that difficult to grasp.
Bzzt... no... most distributions disallow su (or at least make it difficult) sudo is much preferred because it allows finer grained permissions granting...What you need to know is as simple as:
su
A disparate set of "one man and his dog" ROMs where not everything is supported and 900626 ways of doing the same thing. Often, things taken for granted elsewhere (e.g. media playback) can be problematic due to every manufacturer having a different method of supporting it.Take a look at what Android has achieved in comparison.
I've never had to use that apt get stuff ever. The software manager lets you browse, preview, search, install and deinstall programs without having to research, discover and memorise commands and names of programs and command modifiers. And can even sync your list of installed programs between machines. All this has made Linux usable for many people. I guess the latest Windows will be following their long lead.What you need to know is as simple as:
su
apt-get -f install
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade (debian / ubuntu base systems - solve 95% of all problems)
?? Most online Android help will be for normal users with little or no suggestions you use a command line. Essential if it is to be taken up by the masses.A disparate set of "one man and his dog" ROMs where not everything is supported and 900626 ways of doing the same thing. Often, things taken for granted elsewhere (e.g. media playback) can be problematic due to every manufacturer having a different method of supporting it.
I suspect that's much more influenced by you than you think (or at least are willing to admit to).... I would hazard a guess that they do very little more than browse, email and a few DTP tasks - which any OS will do if you know where to point and click.Now windows. Real life example. My mum (very basic user) had new Win7 laptop. 3 months later she killed the OS completely. I have no idea how but she did it. She was lucky I put linux on it alongside. She is still happy and hasn't touched windows in 2 years. My dad (more experience) also runs linux, because windows in the end didn't work out. I didn't force them to use linux, it was their choice.
I didn't say that. What I said was there are lots of ways to do things which lead to fragmentation. Just look at the issues people have getting full frame-perfect media playback with something like xbmc (go and look on xbmc.org and see the sorts of issues people have). And you often end up at the command line if you need to do more complex stuff like rooting the device.?? Most online Android help will be for normal users with little or no suggestions you use a command line.
I've never had to use that apt get stuff ever. The software manager lets you browse, preview, search, install and deinstall programs without having to research, discover and memorise commands and names of programs and command modifiers. And can even sync your list of installed programs between machines. All this has made Linux usable for many people. I guess the latest Windows will be following their long lead.
?? Most online Android help will be for normal users with little or no suggestions you use a command line. Essential if it is to be taken up by the masses.
Does windows repair a messed up boot sector by itself?
Precisely that is going to scare most people away. In many cases, the user has already gone through a trauma searching online to find the information with unfamiliar terminology, not in the user realm. He then pastes in some gobbledegook he was given in a forum. A whole load of text scrolls up his screen. He doesn't know if the command worked or not. You see this a lot in the forums. If he hasn't already given up, he pastes all the text back into the forum. and the guy will say, Oh, did you do a so and so first? Whats a so and so?. And so he gets the next command to paste in. Working blindly this way is not learning. And in most cases not necessary. If only the geek knew the easy way. The command line is a terrible UI for non-techies, with no learnability or discover-ability, no obvious undo. No clear or consistent feedback. Hidden commands. Hidden and inconsistent command options. No familiar terms and places to go. It's just too far removed from what normal users have ever seen. Sadly it's advice like that that scares the bajingos out of people and keeps Linux out of the mainstream. Take a look at what Android has achieved in comparison.
I suspect that's much more influenced by you than you think (or at least are willing to admit to).... I would hazard a guess that they do very little more than browse, email and a few DTP tasks - which any OS will do if you know where to point and click.
From what you said, Windows handled it fine. It was just trashed by your mum in some unknown way and sounds like they got #1 techie son to fix it who suggested linux and they went with it as he obviously knows what he's doing....yeah, so what? Windows should have handled this just fine then?
From what you said, Windows handled it fine. It was just trashed by your mum in some unknown way and sounds like they got #1 techie son to fix it who suggested linux and they went with it as he obviously knows what he's doing....
It's not in any way clever to use the command line. The clever user is learning using tools appropriate to the area he is expert in. Like photo PP. It is cleverer to spend time learning stuff useful for the user than a UI designed for someone doing a different task. If you are going to be maintaining PCs all day, you might need different tools from a photographer. Where one click can carry out many commands and being highly productive.It is a big loss for the society that people aren't educated to use command line for a mere 1 hour or encouraged to THINK.
It isn't if all you want to do is browse and write e-mails (which is fundamentally all I use Android for on my phone).But anyway fragmentation is not an issue to normal Android.
Yeah, probably, but at the end of the day, all it is doing is hiding the command line from you. The problem with quite a few GUIs is some only do the basics and leave you to fend for yourself when things get more complex.And likewise, keeping to the OP world, average users prefer GUIs for the reasons I mentioned above. The command line UI will get in the way.