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Winning the Linux Wars (MCP)

Winning the Linux Wars (MCP)

Posted Jan 9, 2006 16:18 UTC (Mon) by erwbgy (subscriber, #4104)
In reply to: Winning the Linux Wars (MCP) by Wol
Parent article: Winning the Linux Wars (MCP)

In my experience, the person doing the teaching has a big impact on what new users find easier. I showed my mother and father how to you the KDE SuSE desktop and they were both happy users. My brother showed my sister how to use the Windows desktop and she was a happy user. All proclaim that their desktop is the easier, but I'm pretty sure that if my brother and I had swapped groups the "better desktop" verdit would have been swapped too.

You are correct that people find what they know easier. But, at the end of the day, most users don't really care what desktop you give them, as long as they are able to easily do what they want.


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