Re: UI design [was Owen Taylor's paper]

On Thursday 19 September 2002 21:39, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> > Not everything about Windows is good, I don't think the basic design of 
the 
> > Windows UI is the best around, but the fact is that most people most 
likely 
> > to come to Linux are currently using Windows.
> 
> 
> 
> So what about those of us who came to Linux from somewhere else?

There aren't a lot of us. According to a report I saw in the last day or so MS 
has 95% of the desktop.

Consider this: http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

One percent of google's hits are from people running Linux. We are the 
least-numerous named category, one quarter of the Mac, one half of "Other."



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