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)That would really help it to become mainstream. Tesco is absolutely huge - getting this kind of stuff on their shelves would be a real coup. For every £8 spent in the UK, £1 of it goes to Tesco, which is a phenomenal amount really.
They may use PCs but know nothing about them. I even had to help setup a colleagues wifi router as, although bright could not follow instructions!
The school market is a difficult one for two reasons. First, you have naysayers who assert that since Windows/Office/Visual Studio/Photoshop is used on the vast majority of corporate desktops and as such they should be teaching the students using those tools. Many Linux advocates and enthusiasts counter this by claiming that students should be taught how to think for themselves when using a computer, so that knowledge does not go out of date when the next revision of Office is released. The other end of that is that big companies and education establishments alike like to have a warm, fuzzy guarantee that promises support if the **** ever hits the fan. Linux has vastly fewer salesmen coming around, telling computer admins and their bosses about how excellent the lastest versions of everything are.
Why? Linux is no harder to learn how to use than Windows - assuming that you are new to computers. If you start on one and move to the other, it's a lot harder as you almost have to "forget" what you've already learned on the other platform.
I would also bet that a substantial proportion of the population don't know what Windows is.
That wasn't actually my point - there is a substantial amount of pc users who cannot tell the difference between Microsoft Windows and Office or even Internet Explorer - and don't care! So long as they have a box that does what they want it to do, they're happy.
I have to agree with you on that one
Great idea... that would indeed help spread the word.
