Interesting article about "What Linux is doing wrong on the desktop"

[Anders Karlsson]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 07:10 +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 May 2006 05:43, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> [snip]
> > Since Linux was introduced there have been something like 20 million new
> > people born in the US alone.  Some large number of people have gone from
> > "too young to use computers" to "old enough to pick an OS" in that time.
> >
> > Not all Linux growth comes from Windows users.
> Not many can choose an OS when they are 5. Most would start with Windows or 
> Mac )S (more likely Windows, by far) and from there move to Linux. This is by 
> the way not a fact, just logical deduction.

When someone is five years old, they don't choose an OS, they use what
is put in front of them. My daughter, which I have not had influence
over, is using Windows as that is what was put in front of her by her
mother. My son, when the time comes, will learn Unix and Linux. As he
isn't even two, his interest in computers is limited to bashing the
living daylights out of the keyboard at the moment.

The environment is the biggest influence by far when someone is only
five. And what the parents use, the kids will use if it is a home with
computer(s).

-- 
Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com>
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