[ubuntu-za] Comment on Microsoft “tricks” users into upgrading to Windows 10

[Fhulu Lidzhade]

Quite true! 

My daughter first experience with computing was on a Mac. She finds Windows quite difficult and not user friendly. After some thugs robbed us at gunpoint and basically took everything valuable from our house including her iMac, she refused for me to buy her a normal laptop, she’d rather wait for me to save up to get her a “cheap” MacBook. You see when I bought the iMac in 2011, the rand was like R7 to the USD. Now I need need to be a politician to afford a Mac.

- Fhulu


> On 26 May 2016, at 12:26 PM, Matthew French <matthew at gillyweed.co.za> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Jan Greeff <jan at verslank.net <mailto:jan at verslank.net>> wrote:
> On 26/05/2016 11:19, Miles wrote:
> Typical
>  
> Give him a piece of your mind...
> 
> Ah, but to what end?
> 
> Unfortunately this is a problem Linux has been battling for decades - the primacy of knowledge.
> 
> For many people introduced to computers for the first time via DOS/Windows, Windows represents the way a computer should work. All their experience and habits have been developed to cope with Windows. Thus when faced with something new, it doesn't work the way they think it should work and therefore is not better. Those habits developed to work around shortcomings in Windows can't just be dropped because the new system doesn't need them. It takes a while to see how a new environment works. 
> 
> It is not just Linux, I have seen this numerous times with Apple Macs as well.
> 
> The clue this is happening is in the statement: "...it was not easy to use or to tweak...". Having watched new users on Linux I don't think it is fair to say it is not easy to use, it is just different. And saying Windows is easy to tweak but Linux is not is only true if the author considers tweaking as a process of changing Windows settings and wants to be able to change those same settings on Linux. 
> 
> As for boring... the reason I *don't* use Linux every day is because it is too exciting[1]. Too much happening, too much changing, too many new ways to solve old problems. So many cool utilities to play with. So many different window managers. So many distributions. On the other hand I have Windows 10 on my gaming computer, but I can't tell the difference between it and Windows 7. If you want boring...
> 
> Arguing with someone whose only real frame of reference is Windows will just make them dig in and re-enforce their opinion. I think a better strategy is to suggest that Linux works well for you and to point out that it takes a little time to adapt, and that some things will be different.
> 
> - Matthew
> 
> [1] Okay the real reason is the corporate decision makers have decided Windows. If I could reformat my laptop without a world of hurt descending upon me from the IT/Security department it would be a Linux box by tomorrow. 
> 
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