On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 14:09 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 23:01 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > > Install a Linux and call it Windows 2014 - super professional special
> > > admin edition and this kind of user will have no issue, call it Linux
> > > and they will ask you to remove it and reinstall Windows again.
> >
> > I agree :)
> >
> > This is a good point.
>
> Quasi the only point of my reply, so I should have send just this note.
>
> Most dual Windows/Linux booters who used Windows for years never ever
> seriously will switch to Linux. I suspect that many users have trouble
> with Windows. When they switch to Linux they expect to get rid of the
> trouble, but they will experience more, since the thing between monitor
> and chair is the culprit and not the OS, so they likely will boot
> Windows only.
>
> The problems most users experience aren't related to the OS or the apps.
> Humans learn to go to the toilette, lace up one's shoes, "configure" the
> microwave, but expect to magically handle a multi-tool like a computer,
> without even having an abstract idea about the layers of this
> multi-tool. What those users really want is a package of several
> stand-alone-tools, in one tool, that's another kind of multi-tool and
> Windows is closer to this approach, just thin of Linux dependencies.
think
> AFAIK Marc S. and Lennart P. are working on wrecking Linux this way.
IIRC they will get rid of dependencies issues, by ignoring the side
effect of this approach.
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