First of all this is the opinion of a 14 year old whose been around computers all his short life and who is a proud dual booter. So take it how you want it.
I seriously don't think linux is going to flourish soon in the desktop market of home users. Because if you think about it most people who use computers at home are kids that is if tthe parents aren't technology specialists and the thing is lots of kids I know want to try linux but their parents think it's a dead end.So they do they're best to discourage them not to try it.
If you want to get more people running linux try getting schools (high schools etc) to run linux boxes. Convince the system administrator that you can do as much on a well configure Linux box then on a Win95 box for a lower price. Seriously at school the #1 thing we do is text editing and webbrowsing and this can all be done on linux machines while still supporting Office formats.
Get the Admins to believe in linux to get the kids to learn to show them theres something different then Microsoft windows.
I know this might sound as a marketing technique but it's the best we can do. Educate kids today and they'll grow up not following microsoft but tryng different things.
Kids aren't stupid you know if they are showed something and given the opertunity most of them will try it. If they can play games they'll be happy. So my point is don't only cater to big companies cater to teens showed them theres an allternative and in the future you never know.
Please send all mail inculding flame to this address _Air98_@yahoo.com
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First of all this is the opinion of a 14 year old whose been around computers all his short life and who is a proud dual booter. So take it how you want it.
I seriously don't think linux is going to flourish soon in the desktop market of home users. Because if you think about it most people who use computers at home are kids that is if tthe parents aren't technology specialists and the thing is lots of kids I know want to try linux but their parents think it's a dead end.So they do they're best to discourage them not to try it.
If you want to get more people running linux try getting schools (high schools etc) to run linux boxes. Convince the system administrator that you can do as much on a well configure Linux box then on a Win95 box for a lower price. Seriously at school the #1 thing we do is text editing and webbrowsing and this can all be done on linux machines while still supporting Office formats.
Get the Admins to believe in linux to get the kids to learn to show them theres something different then Microsoft windows.
I know this might sound as a marketing technique but it's the best we can do.
Educate kids today and they'll grow up not following microsoft but tryng different things.
Kids aren't stupid you know if they are showed something and given the opertunity most of them will try it. If they can play games they'll be happy.
So my point is don't only cater to big companies cater to teens showed them theres an allternative and in the future you never know.
Please send all mail inculding flame to this address
_Air98_@yahoo.com