With 4 months to go it seems like it’s 2010 all over again … what is the community doing about capitalising and bringing more windows users to the Ubuntu-side ?
How are we talking amongst ourselves to help people collaborate this?
Offer to your local schools your services to put Linux on their computers so they don’t have to try and run unpatched Windows 10, or pay to have them hauled away.
How do I get local school to assimilate Ubuntu, then?
Is it the Howard Stern show?
I don’t think that’s going to help much.
More useful would be getting involved with something such as https://endof10.org
It looks as though there are opportunities for people of all kind of abilities.
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Not clicked on the link yet, but then again I suppose life is what you make of that; not working on the emails at the minute.
Let’s not link to random unrelated songs or items.
You yourself won’t be able to force organizations to adopt Linux. You can suggest it but ultimately it is their choice.
Case in point at my workplace in the past 12 years I worked there so far they havw adopted heavily the use of Linux servers to run stuff, but at the core are still a Windows environment for users, etc. Even for me though I have some workarounds as the ITSec guy.
This said, while you can suggest and float the idea, there is no way to really influence or force adoption of Linux by a company or organization.
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I have already had two people switch to Linux, one switching their laptop to Linux Mint and the other switching both their desktop pc and a laptop to Ubuntu with the Mate desktop (the desktop with dual boot though in order to keep those Window-only games).
I find that the conversion to the Ubuntu default desktop is a bigger hurdle than those alternatives, where users immediately not only feel more comfortable but have the option to configure the desktop more to their likings later on.
It is much hard or impossible for business users, doctors etc., simply because almost all the special-purpose software they need is windows only and for many of them, they rely on hundreds or thousands of MS Office documents, sheets etc. which will not work correctly under Libreoffice.
I do not think that any of those developers who create those special-purpose business solutions has an interest to port them or develop them in a portable way as there is practically no Linux market for them.
The only way how this may perhaps work in the future is that special-purpose software is increasingly offered as a subscription service over the web - then it completely irrelevant if you use that from a browser running under windows or linux (but personally, I hate that trend towards subscription only software solutions, so I am not really willing to consider that as hope).
You mentioned subscription based software, but I think we can clearly see with the new AI models that whilst this is ‘needed’ to keep the CPU’s-a-churning I don’t think that that model really works.
The only other option is a pay-per-use model which might be described like a vending-machine.
Both models either require a huge user base or in googles case a massive asset base to retain their service.
Either way there are draw-backs that may well affect features being added to the program.
Not to mention that if it’s an overall free service the service-provider may ‘sell’ the service-user’s information to the highest bidder.
In all fairness even if you ‘get’ to the stage whereby the service is do-able I think you’ll find that the software -as-a-service intent is pretty much finished!
And that goes for whatever O/S you are thinking of.
If you’re not offering to purchase for the public school systems the computers and training etc it ain’t gonna happen.
Where I live the public school system has a website where a student can login on whatever OS they use at home.
Public school systems where I live also offer a Chrome Book for a small deposit and is refunded when the Chrome Book is returned.
I don’t know about Google although Microsoft offers great deals to learning institutions to purchase and use Windows OS.
Leave Linux be.
Linux is fine where it is.
Stop trying to get the world to change over to Linux.
The day the world changes over to Linux is when Linux becomes another polluted OS and nothing more.
The school system needs to revert back to pencil and paper ways of learning so students can actually learn the basics.
A lot of kids today can’t read, spell or write very well.
A lot of kids today can’t add, subtract, multiply, divide etc.
Back to the old fashioned ways of teaching and learning.
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Thanks for your contribution to this topic.
Closing.
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