Why Linux cannot replace the corporate desktop
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The reasons are many from my point of view.
1) Is the installation/admin. I can take any monkey in the office and teach him to be a windows admin and show them how to setup a windows box. The same cannot be said of linux. It is a lot more complicated and needs a much higher level of compancy.
2) The users. Everyone even your grandma knows how to use windows and there is a common user interface. I can take windows 95 users and sit them down on a windows 2000 box and they will feel at home and can start working. Sure I got to tell them how to use ctrl+alt+del but they can start working. With linux there is no real standard setup. There is no set "office complient" interfaces between programs. With windows programs all programs have the same little icons for open / save / print / etc...
3) There is no standard desktop setup with Linux. In the wintel world there is windows, office, etc... With linux there is not even a de facto standard installation base. Users here still argue over which is the better word processor. Who cares! In the windows world there is no such choices because everyone is used to useing the same things. Also when I sit down grandma or the standard user they ask stupid questions like, I want to message my friend on MSN or ICQ. There is just no replacement to the staple of common windows products in linux.
There has to be some compelling reason for the average joe to switch to linux and money is not going to do it. Time is money and switching the average user to linux would be a huge waste of money because of the learning curve.
Now don't look at me as a windows zelot I am far from it and I do not think windows is the best. But right now all things considered I think windows is the best solution for the common computer user and Linux is still best left to the computer nerds. I just wish it would turn around where linux would be easy enough for grandma to install and where there could be a standard interface and standard set of programs.
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The reasons are many from my point of view.
1) Is the installation/admin. I can take any monkey in the office and teach him to be a windows admin and show them how to setup a windows box. The same cannot be said of linux. It is a lot more complicated and needs a much higher level of compancy.
2) The users. Everyone even your grandma knows how to use windows and there is a common user interface. I can take windows 95 users and sit them down on a windows 2000 box and they will feel at home and can start working. Sure I got to tell them how to use ctrl+alt+del but they can start working. With linux there is no real standard setup. There is no set "office complient" interfaces between programs. With windows programs all programs have the same little icons for open / save / print / etc...
3) There is no standard desktop setup with Linux. In the wintel world there is windows, office, etc... With linux there is not even a de facto standard installation base. Users here still argue over which is the better word processor. Who cares! In the windows world there is no such choices because everyone is used to useing the same things. Also when I sit down grandma or the standard user they ask stupid questions like, I want to message my friend on MSN or ICQ. There is just no replacement to the staple of common windows products in linux.
There has to be some compelling reason for the average joe to switch to linux and money is not going to do it. Time is money and switching the average user to linux would be a huge waste of money because of the learning curve.
Now don't look at me as a windows zelot I am far from it and I do not think windows is the best. But right now all things considered I think windows is the best solution for the common computer user and Linux is still best left to the computer nerds. I just wish it would turn around where linux would be easy enough for grandma to install and where there could be a standard interface and standard set of programs.