lee wrote: > > Besides that, it appears to me that people for reasons that escape me > are willing to put up with whatever crap and problems their windoze > throws at them while they *never* would put up with them if Linux threw > them at them. They even pay a lot of money for it! Any idea why that > is so?
Twofold, I think: 1) Everybody knows a 'computer guy' who can fix their Windows problems (repeatedly if necessary). 2) Windows' reputation is for being prone to failure and viruses and suchlike. Linux is frequently pushed by its proselytes as some perfect blend of absolute reliability and utopian ease-of-use, which it obviously falls short of. > Is it just the effect of marketing that tells everyone they could > intuitively use their computer and of course it will always work > perfectly fine and people believing it despite they can see every time > they use their windoze or macos that what they are being told isn't > true? Or maybe they can't see it because they don't know any better? I think so, yes. But I don't believe it is limited to Windows or OSX. > (Is it really $250 for a windoze license? I have one I couldn't avoid > getting; maybe I should sell it. If you want to make an offer, please > send it directly to me and not to the list.) Windows 7 cost £80 GBP when I bought it a couple of weeks ago. -- Avi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120921121744.ga7...@amazing.avi.co
