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[Odd]

mdovell at comcast.net wrote:
> "It's not ridiculous. Most people don't know that free/libre exists. 
> It's our job to educate them. And we have to take into account what
> software people use. I think in most cases, they only need an office
> suite, mail, browsing and IM. If so, Linux is a very good
> alternative. If they are using, say, Photoshop otoh, Linux is not
> such a good alternative, despite of Gimp."
> 
> That's true. The other thing its getting much easier for Linux as a 
> whole to use. Back in 2000 I was interested and tried RedHat. My hard
>  drive created a partition...but unfortunately there was no boot
> loader (i.e Grub). As a result I gave up. Compair that to ubuntu now
> and you can pop in a usb or a cd and be set...wubi works for my home
> desktop and the usb worked on my laptop. Obviously other operating
> systems have their user base. I just got sick of windows for the most
> part.

I know what you mean.

> In places where I've worked it was interesting to see what was used.
> Panic attacks over viruses mandated at one place to use a virus
> scanner....which took well over an hour a day!

A workplace should really lock down what employees are allowed
to do on their computers. There are solutions for that, like AD.

> In another place they use linux somewhat but it's still mostly
> command line (no gui? why?).

Perhaps they don't need it? I don't use a gui on my Debian servers.

> There's so many places that could easily use the OS but for some
> reason they like spending more money on things.

It's not that simple, though. For instance, I worked at a place some
years ago where another person and I introduced Linux for server
usage. But the boss was weary, because we were the only ones
who knew how to use them. So, while Linux is free, it is also a
matter of knowledge in how to use it.

> Emulation I think might bridge some of this gap. Applications I saw
> much of the time were old DOS ones which were emulated in windows.

Lots of places have DOS-based legacy software they use. As long
as it works, they don't see the need to upgrade.

-- 
Odd