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| 2 | CraigBox | 1 | There are very good reasons people run [Windows] rather than change to [Linux]: |
| 1 | StuartYeates | 2 | |
| 11 | AristotlePagaltzis | 3 | # It's what their employer or school has taught them and they don't want/need to learn another [OperatingSystem]. ([Microsoft] and [Apple] consciously exploit this by offering free computers to many educational institutions.) |
| 6 | AristotlePagaltzis | 4 | # Games they want to play often only run on [Windows]; [FirstPersonShooter]s usually being the exception. |
| 5 | # Even though [Windows] comes at a cost, many people already have it. Changing to [Linux] can cost far more than upgrading, at least in terms of time investment. | ||
| 7 | MarcelVanDeSteeg | 6 | # They need to run an application written for [Windows] that is not portable; commonly specialist (often [Proprietary]) applications. F.ex, businesses have often been using some accounting package written in [VisualBasic] or [VisualC++] for years; obviously, Unix versions of these applications do not exist and with the business being unwilling/unable to migrate, they are "locked in" to [Windows]. |
| 8 | AristotlePagaltzis | 7 | # Though this is slowly changing, hardware manufactures rarely provide [Linux] drivers for their latest products (much less ones for less common [Free] systems such as one of the [BSD] flavours). People who want/need/would like to use these have no choice but [Windows] until someone writes a driver for their hardware and OperatingSystem. (Which may or may not ever happen..) |
| 11 | AristotlePagaltzis | 8 | # You don't need to run Linux to get access to OpenSource software--see Ubuntu's [list of open source programs | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ListOfOpenSourcePrograms] |
| 4 | AristotlePagaltzis | 9 | |
| 10 | See also IssuesWithWindows and WellThoughtOutReasonsToRunLinux | ||
| 1 | StuartYeates | 11 | |
| 12 | AddToMe | ||
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| 5 | MarcelVanDeSteeg | 14 | ----- |
| 1 | StuartYeates | 15 | CategoryPolitics |
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