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Re: Almost useless
by Your_average_MS_user on Tuesday 27/Apr/2004, @10:31
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Hi you wonderful people!
Sorry if I seem a bit manic, but I've just had my first Linux experience, even if oddly enough, I'm back at XP at the moment posting through Opera.
What I wanted to say regarding KDE on Windows, the only people you'll reach with that (in regards to the Windows masses), are the experimental types. However, those have dual boot anyway. The average MS user is much too scared to use anything Linux, the problem here is psychological. Mental block.
People who do not consider themselves tekkies (Hello!;-) are scared shitless of Linux because they *think* that if they make any mistake, it will create a black hole and swallow the solar system. It really doesn't matter even how smoothly KDE would run on Windows, your average tekkiot would not install it simply because of the fear it would "do something" which was irreversible.
So unless there was a specific need by some prof, I doubt most dozers would even try it because it's all a bit irrational really, myself included. For several years I moved *very slowly* towards the fence, intimidated as hell, to get a whiff of Linux air and wanted to wait until 'I bought the next computer' so I 'can mess up the old one' with Linux. Like I said, irrational.
Even dual boot was a threatning concept to me, the sheer thought brought on fantasies about penguins eating their way crisscross through partitions while grinning evily.
Then, I found out about the Live CD thingy and I must say the concept is just brilliant. Pop in a CD, play with Linux, take out the CD, restart and you're "back to normal". Only that for me, normal suddenly didn't feel quite normal anymore. I'm so impressed. Sure, KDE still "ported Linux to me", but under Linux. While I'm willing to learn, there is just no way I would have been interested in any Unix based system without practical GUI. I think command prompts are scary. This might change with time and who knows where the road will lead, but I'm pretty confident that this Windows box here was the last one I bought. I actually start feeling tricked that most PC's are sold with Windows preslapped, if I had had (had had?) a choice when I bought my PC's with the preinstalled Linux being considerably cheaper, of course I would have opted for Linux. Who dosen't like to save a couple of bucks?
So anyway, sorry for the long post, but it was the 'supersave' 'totally reversible' LiveCD which did it for me (first SLAX then Knoppix). |
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