Increasing user base of Ubuntu desktop.

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 19:06:39 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>I'm a child of the 80th, born in 1966, so I never migrated from Windows
>to Linux. I do not come from Windows, as well as a lot of Linux users
>of my age or who are way older than I am.
>
>My first machine with something Microsoft alike was an Atari ST with a
>80286 hardware emulator, IOW a PCB containing a real 80286 CPU was
>soldered. Even this time I didn't use MS-DOS, but DR-DOS, because
>Microsoft failed to be reliable from the very beginning.
>
>Actually I'm not using Ubuntu from an Ubuntu desktop image. I
>usually start without a GUI, by e.g. an Ubuntu server install with
>disabling the install of several packages or I'm using a DVD or a
>Ventoy USB stick with a persistent live Ubuntu flavour such as Ubuntu
>Mate, Xubuntu etc., or NomadBSD. My daily used Linux on my desktop
>machine is Arch Linux with openbox and no WM at all. I can also boot
>into a customised *bunt with openbox (or jwm) and no WM at all.
>
>I'm running QEMU/KVM and VirtualBox for other operating systems,
>including Windows XP, 7 and 10, let alone that I help my neighbourhood
>with Windows issues.
>
>For photos, drawing, drawn and stop motion animation videos, as well
>as music productions I'm in favour of Apple.
>
>I have not the slightest idea what is easier when using the Windows
>GUI, than when using BSD, Linux (with openbox and command line, I
>usually do most things using command line, instead of e.g. a file
>browser and such helpers). I guess people get used to something and are
>unwilling tom learn something different, even if it should be easier to
>use, they fell it's harder to use, because they are used to something
>odd in the first place.
>
>Btw. half-truth are "bogus" and nothing else.


My apologies for typos, you probably are able to understand it anyway.