On Friday 30 July 2010 6:27:57 am Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
where did you get these figures from?
"Web statistics suggest that Ubuntu's share of Linux desktop usage is about 50%" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)
ok not 60% like i had mentioned before, had read that somewhere else. Due to the method used to record these figures, they tend to vary from source to source.
in my part of the country, most first time users who start with Ubuntu give up and go back to doze - a first time user should be given mandriva or suse where everything works out of the box. Not ubuntu - where a lot of things are b0rked and need tuning.
i think most users shift back to doze because of unfamiliarity and rigidness. People who learn by memorizing the steps involved in doing a task(like first click here, then click there, then type this etc) rather than what they are actually doing will generally find it hard to get accustomed to a different environment. Availability of Application is an issue to but I think its a smaller issue considering that most Commercial application have a equally powerful Free alternative albeit usually with a different interface (like gimp). Hardware problems and "out of box"ness i think is an even smaller issue.