Yes but you already had the technical sophistication to be running servers. Apparently, you also put in the effort to learn it. I work in a high school in the IT department, and many of the (non-IT) staff and teachers (as well as many other people that I know elsewhere) know enough to check their e-mail, write a Word document, and print it. If I'm lucky, they ^might^ have a vague idea what the names of those programs are. Weather it's easier in the long run or not, if they hear about an alternative (be it Mac or Linux or something else), they'll reject it immediately since they barely know enough to survive on their current setup and don't want to learn a different setup. Granted, not everyone is this timid around computers, but it does describe a large portion of users, and not only the older users.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes but you already had the technical sophistication to be running servers. Apparently, you also put in the effort to learn it.
I work in a high school in the IT department, and many of the (non-IT) staff and teachers (as well as many other people that I know elsewhere) know enough to check their e-mail, write a Word document, and print it. If I'm lucky, they ^might^ have a vague idea what the names of those programs are.
Weather it's easier in the long run or not, if they hear about an alternative (be it Mac or Linux or something else), they'll reject it immediately since they barely know enough to survive on their current setup and don't want to learn a different setup.
Granted, not everyone is this timid around computers, but it does describe a large portion of users, and not only the older users.