Sanket Shah wrote:
Guys, the average user doesnt even know firefox or others are alternatives to shitty Internet Explorer. How do u expect them to make their way through linux? If u use linux, U HAV TO SPEND TIME TO SUIT UR TASTE.
Even after I install FOSS equivalents for them in Doze, many are still too lazy to figure out how to use them. Such people do not deserve FOSS.
Linux needs a large investment initially in terms of setting up time, which unfortunately people don't have in the professional world, but they hav money. An avg MBA grad who gets laptops from college or buys one usually has abt 8-10 hrs at home daily at max (may be some weekends too). When do you think they will sit around for hrs and make their linux flavor set to their taste buds???
And, there is the notion, "Free OS?" "Better than Windows?" "Surely they are bluffing." "Linux is so complex." blah blah blah... People are so used to the idea of paying for software that they dun fathom the idea of linux. Very few actually pay here fr software proven by rampant piracy. They are so used to using cracked stuff and trial versions, that free software seems impossible...
Support for Linux is needed from manufacturers as well as commercial software package makers for the industry. However this is still a distant dream. We still have software makers who make commercial packages for Airline Booking, Share Trading, etc for the agents, run only in the Administrator mode of doze. All this is software involves high value money transactions but the doze zombies don't even know how to make their software run in Limited User mode.