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Negroponte succumbs

Posted Apr 24, 2008 22:25 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Negroponte succumbs by allesfresser
Parent article: Negroponte on OLPC's commitment to Sugar

To me too. Sadly we are in the minority here. Most people think that Windows is the good OS and Linux is "the bad one", as a coworker put it when I showed her my Eee. Of the rest, most think that Linux is a do-it-yourself OS not really suitable for end users. A pity, but not something that cannot change.

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Negroponte succumbs

Posted Apr 26, 2008 8:27 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]

"Most people" have no opinion about Linux because they've never heard of it...  If they have
heard of it, the opinion is more likely to be "too techie" than "bad" (what does "bad" mean
for an OS anyway?).

Negroponte succumbs

Posted Apr 26, 2008 9:38 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

"Bad" means in this context "cheap", "of poor quality". I suppose part of this reputation is due to companies giving it away. Its presence in low cost computers may also be a factor. Most people don't know e.g. that the vast majority of supercomputers run Linux (although they have most certainly heard of Linux).