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Originally Posted by it_waaznt_me
Normal home desktop users do not know what Linux is and hence find it not interesting .. .. If a user wont find a program easy to use, he will dump it .. As easy as that ..
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Normal home desktop users do not know what Linux is...not because it has major flaws with its usability but because they have never been a Linux desktop. An average user would at the most need web surfing, write a few documents, listen to his/her MP3s and chat with a few friends. Now let me give you a situation where you are given a PC with Ubuntu/SUSE pre-installed with all such things working, would they not adapt? Of course they will. Will the user find typing in OpenOffice difficult then Word or will he/she find Amarok/Rhythmbox sound any different then WMP? This is not the case. The average joe doesn't want to migrate not because Linux is tough but because that is how he has been living for so long. He is simply too lazy to budge. Here is a message from a user on LUGD mailing list
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in one sense, it is easier for people to migrate if they are given no
choice (i know it sounds autocratic, but that's what worked for us. We
did not want pirated software for legal reasons, and we couldn't afford
licensed copies. now, the general users don't even ask for windows)
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^ that statement is true for everyone. today Windows is stuck into a user's throat with a long stick and then told to him that this is what you have to live with. people go out and buy an assembeled system and they are given no choice but Windows. If same thing starts to happen with Linux then I can give you a 100% guarantee that no user would ever complaint about Linux not being user friendly. That is just not true...