Linux made great progress Was: Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?

[Carthik Sharma]

On 12/1/05, Hodgins Family <ehodgins at telusplanet.net> wrote:
> Good afternoon!
>
> >> This is something of a quick straw poll.  I'd like to know how many
> >> people
> >> have actually replaced Windows with Ubuntu Linux.
> >
> > I think the question is not relevant.
>
It does not _have_ to be relevant - the answer in my case is yes, I
have replaced windows with linux - for political/social reasons.

> > Linux is not ready to replace windows.

It is, since it can help users accomplish the same results, invariably.

> This is impossible to determine given that people use Linux and Windows for
> many similar things and many different things:
> i)  if Windows is only used for email or web browsing then Linux could
> replace it.
> ii) if Windows is used for running a Lexmark Z12 printer, then Linux is NOT
> ready to replace it.
>
> Pick your software tools first, then decide what OS platform it needs to run
> on.

On the contrary, you could pick your OS first, and then buy the
hardware that you can use with it - like windows and mac users do.
With linux, the software is free - so no pressure on that front. with
both linux and windows you pay for hardware, so no difference, really,
whether you use linux or windows.

> > AND Linux does not want to replace windows.
We aren't Linux, now, are we ?

> > Linux is a way of life and I am shure you do not want to push you way
> > of life to everybody

Friends don't let friends fail :)

> Linux is a tool, not a way of life. It may reflect a way of life or be a
> result of a bunch of people living a certain way of life, but in the end it
> is just a tool.

So is windows, and for some reasons, which are amply clear, Linux is a
better lifestyle choice for people with curiosity and the urge to
learn.

I hope I haven't added too much to an old topic...

Carthik.

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University of Central Florida
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