this is sad
this is sad
Posted Jun 21, 2016 8:32 UTC (Tue) by hitmark (guest, #34609)In reply to: this is sad by krake
Parent article: Klumpp: A few words about the future of the Limba project
And that may well indicate a big obstacle.
Most non-techie computer users equate hardware with software.
We have probably all snickered to the tech support tale of "what OS are you using? Dell". Basically most people treat a computer like they treat a TV or similar, is a sealed whole and not a sum of parts.
So if you were to put two computers of the same brand side by side, one running Window and one running Linux, customers may well get confused as they equate the brand with Window out of habit.
Similarly you have HTC used the same look of watch widget for their phones since the Windows PocketPC days.