Selling Linux to Windows Users

[Knapp]

> Windows has better accessibility features. Scratch that- Windows HAS
> accessibility features. Gnome has nothing useful other, and all of
> KDE's accessibility features were abandoned in KDE 4.

As I have said elsewhere KDE 4 is not read for distro use, at least
not one for mainstream users. As a person with good ears and eyes and
a working body I can't say much about accessibility in any case on any
system or OS.

> Windows has software for professionals. In my profession, engineering,
> what CAD software is available for Linux?

I don't use it much but my system has qcad on it. Might not be the
best but it is there. Could be others, I use Blender3d for 3d work not
cad. Have to ask a real cad user about that.

>> Having used Windows for years, studied with MS programmers and lived
>> in Seattle, I know what windows is. Why Linux is better is very
>> interesting to me and I posted it because I thought others might want
>> to know also. I personally think MS is on the more evil side of life.
>
> Evil? MS is a business, it is their job to lock you in.

Locking you in? How about treatment of workers (made my friend lie to
his workers and then they fired the workers and made (do it or loose
your job too) my friend train Indian workers to replace them, then
they fired him and the Indians went back to India. (This might have
been a subcontractor though, in has been to long since all this
happened and it was not to me.)), lieing or at least misleading people
(that is classic evil), getting people to work way to much (yes they
again can do it or loose their job). Monopoly, and other low life
business acts. Looking at the best software on the market, copy it,
extend it and drive the first maker out of business (legal
pragarisum). Sure a lot of this is standard business but would Jesus
do it? (I am not Christian but this gives you the view point that I
want, hope it does not offend anyone.) Yes, evil IMOHO.

Also, I might have a hard time proving this so will not try nor
defend, MS seems to want people without money to steal their software
so that they become addicted to it and then when they get older and
have money they will have to pay for it. This is stealing, stealing is
evil as well by most religious definitions I have seen.

Free open source lets the poor run their computers without stealing!
This was the second reason I changed to Linux. My MS computer was full
of stolen software and I found that I could no longer feel good about
myself as a thief (I developed morals about the same time I turned 18,
LOL). Linux allowed me to have a great computer and be honest and
crime free. I would love to see the percentage of Windows users that
have crime free computer systems!

>> Many people would be much happier with Linux if they knew why they
>> would benefit from changing and then made the change.
>>
>
> And what they would be missing as well.

Is that a trick question? Blue screen of death maybe or a game?

>> Making the change from MS to Linux is hard.
>
> Then don't do it. I should switch you from Toyota to Ford, because
> Ford is right for me.

That is just plain dumb, sometimes doing what is best takes work.
Would you say that to a smoker or other drug addict too?

>> It took me a year to start
>> to feel at home with Linux. Now I would NEVER go back because of the
>> power and freedom that comes with this system. The politics of Linux
>> and the free software movement is also a bonus for me!
>
> And those who need those freedoms can use their FOSS programs on
> Windows. What freedom-giving Linux software does not run on Windows?

10 years ago when I started? Not much. Now a lot of it does but why
would you want to? Despite the people saying that Linux does have
viruses and other problems like Windows, I have yet to have any
problems like that at all! I had problems with that on Windows all the
time (one time a month), including problems with the virus checker
itself crashing and slowing my computer.

> Note that I have not had any MS software in our household since
> October 2005. However, it is not because I hate MS or because I am on
> a mission to convert the world. It is because Linux suits our
> household. That is not true for every household.
> --
> Dotan Cohen

How does it and why does it suit your household?

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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