On 11/15/2004 12:08:08 PM, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> All of us trying hard to convert friends etc to Linux - what are the
> arguments used?
>
> Mainly curious, but - why should people drop Windows (which they
> know,
> most of their programs often only runns there etc) and swich to
> Linux?
The biggest benefits imho are -
1) Not very many (if any) viruses for Linux - 'course there are worms,
but that's an issue on Windows as well.
2) So far, that I know of, no spyware
Both of those aren't guaranteed for the future - especially with
distributions like Lindows that (at least use to) default to root user
eliminating filesystem security.
3) This is the big one for me - unified facility for updating not just
the vendor installed software packages, but potentially all software,
through a single interface.
All of those are nice - but are they "killer apps" for Linux? No - it is
merely supporting functions which make the OS nicer.
What i mean is more like: What can you do on Linux, you cant use Windows
or OSX for? Anything cool that most people would want?