ma, 2010-11-29 kello 01:13 +1030, Tim kirjoitti: > On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 20:52 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I think the primary reason Windows users stay with Windows, even > > though they constantly complain about its shortcomings, is it's > > familiar, and they dread learning something different. > > Not to mention lock-in. You have this data that's only directly, or > practically, usable with your particular software. To change to another > OS, you have to transfer, and probably, convert your data, and that > process might be lossy/messy/lengthy/expensive. On practice there's a combination of the two above reasons. Windowz people are often asking "will it be possible to open all my stuff from documents? I have a bunch of word and excel documents on disk D:\..." And when hearing the answer the second reason appears the scene: "Uhh! You say openoffice? It's so unhandy!" And when I hearing it from scientific crowd (who have to write article, reports, these, etc.) I always ask them have they ever heard of LaTeX? It's a funny question because I work in a polymer industry :-) -- Linux: Where Don't We Want To Go Today? -- Submitted by Pancrazio De Mauro, paraphrasing some well-known sales talk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
