Switching others to Linux
Over the Christmas period I finally convinced my girlfriends father to give Linux a go as he was getting very annoyed with his Windows XP install. I bought him Linux for Dummies and a couple of days after he had installed Ubuntu on his PC and was willing to give it a go.
He must have tried it for about a week, but when I spoke to him last night he said that he was going to reinstall Windows.
When I asked the reasons I got some things I heard before;
1. A webcam he had been bought wouldn’t work / he couldn’t find drivers for it. It worked out of the box on Windows.
2. Some of the programs he uses a lot e.g. Skype have reduced functionality in the Linux version.
But the third and most interesting reason he gave, was that he would be more inclined to stick with Linux if the community was united under one distribution. I tried to explain to him that the freedom of Linux enabled you to have as many distros as you liked and that there were very strong similarities in all of them, but this didn’t seem to sway him.
I thought this was quite an interesting view of the OS.
