<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 9:41 PM Colin Law <<a href="mailto:clanlaw@gmail.com">clanlaw@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 at 16:01, Amit <<a href="mailto:amitchoudhary0523@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">amitchoudhary0523@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> The main point is that most of the non-programmers are used to Windows, so to migrate them to linux, there should be an user interface like Windows. I know there are few such distros but I think that there are so many diverse options in linux desktop that may be non-programmers get confused as to which one to use.<br>
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> If Linux foundation adopts one particular distro/linux desktop then may be it will easy for Windows users to switch to Linux.<br>
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The main reason that most desktop and laptop PCs are Windows based is<br>
because most users don't care what the OS is, they just buy a machine<br>
and use it. Since stores generally only sell Windows or Mac based<br>
machines the typical user does not get a Linux option at all.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have heard this argument before but the point is that they don't sell Linux desktops because Linux desktops are not up to the mark.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I had once bought a linux desktop from Amazon in 2015 probably, and when I just started using it, I got an option to update something and when I did that, few things got botched by the update and probably wireless stopped working. So, I returned it.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Companies will definitely sell linux desktops if they can make profit from it. But it is very hard to convince a non-programmer buyer to buy linux because they also know that linux desktops are not up to the mark.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On my linux desktop, the native file explorer is far behind the windows file explorer.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There was one more issue that I encountered - I had downloaded zip file of openjdk to do java development because I didn't want to install java. However, this presented a problem - for associating the java jar file with java executable program I had to write a .desktop file. So, I had to learn how to write a .desktop file. On windows it is simple - you just right click the jar file and then choose java executable program to run the jar file and the jar files will then get associated with the java executable program (no need to learn anything).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don't use windows because it is insecure. It can get hacked. Although I will also buy an antivirus but still I think that windows can get hacked even if antivirus is there.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards,</div><div dir="auto">Amit</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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