how many people have actually replaced Windows with Ubuntu Linux

[Gary W. Swearingen]

clivewagenaar <clivewagenaar at gmail.com> writes:

> DC Parris Wrote:
> I'd like to know how many people have actually replaced Windows with Ubuntu Linux.

Better to prefix a "> " before lines that you quote (so the preceding
line should have started with "> > I'd".  E-mail editors can do this
for you.

> So not sure if this is seen as 100% replacing Windows, but on my desktop I only have Ubuntu running full-time now.

People see it different ways.  I don't see it replacing Windows until
you buy a computer which hasn't "paid the MSFT tax".  (I couldn't just
say "without Windows", because, last time I heard, even the company
which sells Linux laptops has to buy them with Windows and then remove
it.)

Sadly, most Linux and BSD users each have bought their up-to-date
versions of Windows, Office, and plenty of apps "Designed for XP".
I can certainly sympathize with them about their reasoning; I once
had a weak moment when I thought MSFT'd soon kill Unix and purchased
Windows NT 3.1, which was good for just about nothing and obsolete
by the time I found a Slackware Linux in an Internet book in 1995.