On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Graham <ubu...@grahams.idps.co.uk> wrote: > You are basically saying it's better to stay with the devil you know.
I did not want to say, that I find it better to stay with the devil I know - that's the behaviour of the users (regardless what the users say, that's the behaviour I observe. > I disagree because my experiences are not like yours. > Firstly, I never recommend removing a users current installation and > leaving them with something they are unfamiliar. I always help them a lot in the beginning - I don't leave them alone. However, of course, it is the unfamiliar thing in the beginning. > I always set up machines to dual boot and leave them with the option to > go back to their existing installation. > This has a very high switchover rate, since they can compare one to the > other and find the Linux installation is far more reliable and > dependable. I never do dual-boot installations - tried it a few times and it is additional complexity added. However, maybe I should try your way of offering the dual-boot. > I talking about housewives, psychiatrists, clergymen, plumbers, care workers. > These are the people I have deployed to and they do not look back. I cannot say that I have such a wide-spread target audience. I think there are two types of "normal users": Those who are interested in computers and do more than just email and web-surfing and those who are not. The latter is usually no problem to migrate. - However, this is always home users somehow where in general is less problematic. The problems arise when you have people who are e.g. working as freelancers and need to communicate a lot with other companies. >From your post, it seems you actually do not have any Linux experience to >compare. Oh I have several different experiences: I do manage the server at a very small company (3-4 people) and I helped migrating users with less and with more IT knowledge. - Far not so many as you - I think, but enough to know the pitfalls, as I can look back also to a few failures also (failure in the sense, that people did not continue to use Ubuntu or still use it for particular tasks only). I myself are facing the biggest hurdles as I am running my Ubuntu in a Windows-only environment in the office where whole IT department is fully Microsoft-conform. Just to make it clear: I do not want to say, that Linux or Ubuntu is failing. It's just that I am experiencing more issues during the last months than before. So this is, why I don't even understand the efforts put into discussions of shopping lenses and the like - such things are worth discussing and implementing when everything else is running fine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
