desktoplinux.com— This guest column by Kim Brebach, a consultant with an Australian technology marketing group, attempts to view Linux from the perspective of an ordinary, nontechnical end user.
Sep 12, 2007View in Crawl 4
Kim Brebach is trying too hard. All 13 points trail from a single line: Linux is not Windows. The more Kim writes, the more people lash out in response to his writings.
Steven,People are different and their needs differ (you already know this). Kim Brebach is a _Windows_ consultant. To him, the learning curve is not worth it. That might be fine. For our parents, however, just a PC that can do E-mail and browsing might be fine. To some, stability is important.There's no golden test.
Closed AccountSep 12, 2007
Why does this keep being posted on Digg?it's already on my desktop,thank you very much.
spr0k3tSep 12, 2007
Kim Brebach is trying too hard. All 13 points trail from a single line: Linux is not Windows. The more Kim writes, the more people lash out in response to his writings.
schestowitzSep 12, 2007
Steven,People are different and their needs differ (you already know this). Kim Brebach is a _Windows_ consultant. To him, the learning curve is not worth it. That might be fine. For our parents, however, just a PC that can do E-mail and browsing might be fine. To some, stability is important.There's no golden test.
tehboredSep 13, 2007
That's bulls**t. I saw a few headlines about Ubuntu on digg, checked it out, installed it and now I love it.