Off track

[t scytale]

On 5/4/06, alex <radsky at ncia.net> wrote:
>
> With respect to the relative ease or difficulty of getting operating
> systems like MS Windows, UBUNTU and other Linuxes to work, could the
> amount and type of traffic on forums and lists like this one be an
> indicator of which system users require more assistance or would it be
> merely an indicator of the popularity of the system?  This UBUNTU list
> far outruns the others.

it is probably more closely related to a) how popular the system is b)
how much the culture surrounding the system encourages user-user
communication (as opposed to, say, calls to a customer support line)
c) how easy it is for users to understand and fix the system

it is not necessarily closely related to
a) how well the system works b) the average experience (or otherwise)
of a user of the system