People are really weird about their computers. A friend and I were volunteering for a non-profit, and we tried to get them to switch over to Linux. We got permission to install it on one of the older PCs in the computer lab. The director was flummoxed by it, however, and she thought that if she couldn't understand it, nobody else could. I had a conversation with her that went like this:
Her: "I don't even know how to get on the Internet with that thing!"
Me: "...You double-click on the Firefox icon. Just like on the Windows machines."
Her: <blank stare>
In the end, the non-profit ditched Linux and opted to spend hundreds of dollars on a Windows upgrade instead. The final nail in the coffin may have been one volunteer who was virulently anti-Linux (although he was a Linux user himself). He had a wild hair up his ass because Ubuntu had taken several months to provide support for his WiFi card. As a result, he decided that Linux was unreliable and should not be used by ordinary computer users.
I've ran into a few Linux users who think "Only super-smart people like me can use Linux." It's like hipsters who are fans of underground music, but they don't want that music to become popular because then they wouldn't be "cool" anymore.
People are really weird about their computers. A friend and I were volunteering for a non-profit, and we tried to get them to switch over to Linux. We got permission to install it on one of the older PCs in the computer lab. The director was flummoxed by it, however, and she thought that if she couldn't understand it, nobody else could. I had a conversation with her that went like this:
Her: "I don't even know how to get on the Internet with that thing!"
Me: "...You double-click on the Firefox icon. Just like on the Windows machines."
Her: <blank stare>
In the end, the non-profit ditched Linux and opted to spend hundreds of dollars on a Windows upgrade instead. The final nail in the coffin may have been one volunteer who was virulently anti-Linux (although he was a Linux user himself). He had a wild hair up his ass because Ubuntu had taken several months to provide support for his WiFi card. As a result, he decided that Linux was unreliable and should not be used by ordinary computer users.
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