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

John wrote:
> On Thursday 19 September 2002 21:39, Thomas Dodd wrote:
>>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.

But what OS did most linux user come from, and when?
I doubt that most of the current users cam form a completely
M$ background. Like me, that had experience with 8-bit computers
like the Commodore 64 and Apple IIe, possibly early
16-bit Amigas, Ataris, and Macs. Probably have a little
Unix exposure from college too.

> 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."

Maybe we don't uses goggle? I don't. I've been using infoseek since
it was at DEC. Back when there were only 3 or 4 "search" sites.
I quit using Yahoo because got too commercial.

	-Thomas