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

[Scott]

On 05/02/2006 09:00 PM, * Anders Karlsson spake thusly:
> 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.


They'll be pretty well-rounded then (or confused) when they get to
school and go to computer lab and learn how to use Windows or a Mac.


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