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Originally Posted by
gnsks2006 
I'm immune to your GNU-spells such as "You're wrong", "You don't need it", "You're using the wrong distro", and "You're using the wrong desktop environment". It's a good thing the thread title is "Why you don't you use Linux" instead of "Why you say you don't Linux and your reasons are worthless and invalid, we just know better".
Good to see that things haven't changed though. Makes everything reassuring, in a way.
I his defence, if someone uses an absolute like "
it's harder to use than Windows" when they've only tried niche or server distros like BT or CentOS (respectively), then I think he's be right to say "
give Ubuntu / Mint a try".
It's fair enough to prefer Windows to Linux. One might prefer the Windows way of manually Googling, downloading and installing applications instead of using Linux package managers (I personally don't, but I know some do) - and that's entirely a personal preference that everyone is entitled to. But I think there's also lot of misconception about Linux amongst Windows users - where they've either used Linux 10 years ago and dismissed it every since or simply tried a "expert level" distribution rather than an "entry level" one, and then assumed that Linux -as a whole- is not user friendly. Misconceptions like that I think should be challenged. Just like when Linux users accuse Windows of being unstable or virus ridden based on pre-NT experiences - Windows users are right to challenge Linux users over those misconceptions too.
The difficult bit is having such discussions amicably and without descending into flame wars - which can be difficult when talking about personal preferences and reasoning and when chatting about it over a sterile, emotionless, medium such as message boards.
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