Study: Linux nears Windows XP usability (ComputerWorld)

Study: Linux nears Windows XP usability (ComputerWorld)

Posted Aug 5, 2003 7:14 UTC (Tue) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)
Parent article: Study: Linux nears Windows XP usability (ComputerWorld)

Clear win for Linux. I mean, sure they used 45 rather than 41 minutes for the same tasks, but these where users "with computer knowledge, but no experience with XP or Linux".

All this prooves is that it's a little bit easier to change from one MS-system to the next than it is to change from MS to Linux. I'm willing to bet that all, or nearly all, of these users have extensive experience with various Windows-systems, and no experience at all with anything else.

If they where all say Mac-users, with no experience with any unix or any MS-windows, then the test would've been more fair, but I suppose it's hard to find such users these days.

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