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

On Friday 20 September 2002 23:50, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> 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.

I came from OS/2 and I know a lot of other OS/2 users went to Linux too.

Judging from the GUI design, most of the developers come from Windows and 
about none from OS/2.


> 
> > 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. 

Most of the suggestions of search engines I see in L circles are to use 
Google. We do use it.




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