Mark Boon wrote: > > On 8-apr-08, at 15:13, Don Dailey wrote: > >>> Cost-of-ownership is different for everyone of course, but despite >>> Linux being free it never seemed worth it to me. >> My main point is that MS has been very successful at making you feel the >> way you do. > > I don't want to pretend that I'm not susceptible to marketing, as I am > as much as the next person. But in this case I don't believe it's > something that is MS's doing. I have made a few serious attempts to > use Linux and found it a great sink-hole of time. It was either > because some devices weren't working properly or not supported > altogether or the software I needed wasn't available in easy to > install modules, if it was available in the first place. I have used > Linux for work and it's great if you have a full-time sys-admin that > makes sure everything works. Then again, that's true for Windows too. We are all susceptible to marketing, even when we understand how it works, and I know this applies to me too. Some just won't admit it.
Linux nowadays installs like a dream. You also have to consider that most hardware companies work for Microsoft under the table in one way or the other, so it's amazing that Linux supports the vast majority of devices. And I have heard that Windows does not install as easily as Linux. You are generally isolated from know this because you almost always buy a machine that is pre-configured to work. All the major manufactures such as Dell and others are not going to sell you a machine that is broken, they work in cooperation with Microsoft and the component manufactures to deliver something that is going to work. But I have rarely had difficulty making a linux machine work pretty quickly, but I know there are notable exceptions with some people. This has improved hugely over time and rarely happens now. Even when it does you can almost always solve the problem in those rare cases by browsing the web. Also, a lot of hardware and component manufactures now cooperate with the Linux world to a much greater extent than they used to. Linux is a time sinkhole to someone not familiar with it. You are probably almost unaware of the huge investment in time you spent learning windows because the lessons happened gradually over many years and you don't give it a second thought. You just "know it" and forgot that you had to "learn it." - Don > > Mark > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
