[wellylug] WellyLUG rekindling
Phil Daintree
phil at logicworks.co.nz
Mon Mar 18 09:41:12 NZDT 2013
>
> Other than the use cases I've already mentioned, my experience of
> non-technical users is they would rather gnaw off their own arms than change
> the way they access their PC's. They know just enough in order to turn on the
> pc, get to the tools they regularly use and where their "stuff" is kept.
> Change the slightest detail and they are all at sea, prompting the support
> calls we've all received (no doubt). Optimism definitely has it's place,
> though :)
>
>
This is exactly right IMHO... this is why Mac/iPad/Android tablets are becoming
so prevalent.
The other category of users - the hardcore gamers have to have Windows in any
event as the software is not available for Linux (yet).
Only when there is a software imperative that requires Linux will it become
mainstream - this is most unlikely to happen because we insist on the code being
open - and compilable on any platform.
We are the tinkerer minority :-) and hard to see how/why that should change. We
have needs that others don't have - we want to be able to get to the engine room
and see all the moving parts. Most folks just want it to work.
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