[mdlug] Suggestions for games for an elderly parent? Starcraft

[David Lane]

Thats the whole thing about Marketing.  You HAVE to show that market that Linux is good for your Desktop.

David 




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From: Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
To: mdlug at mdlug.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:19:09 PM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Suggestions for games for an elderly parent? Starcraft

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:53:40 -0500 (EST)
Michael Corral <micorral at comcast.net> wrote:

> 2009-01-21, Monsieur Wolfger a ecrit:
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:08 PM, David Lane <dcl400m at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> >> I have baught Linux from Best Buy, A version of Suse.
> > Oh, sure. It's relatively easy to find the Linux OS on store
> > shelves. Finding software *for* Linux on store shelves is the hard
> > part.
> 
> It's a little harder than it used to be. CompUSA used to sell Linux
> software (e.g. Applixware, Xess), and Best Buy did too (e.g.
> StarOffice). MicroCenter still sells some Linux apps, but not as much
> as they did about 5-6 years ago. I once asked them why, and the
> answer was simple: people just weren't buying them. That's the thing,
> there may be one or two people (like David) on a Linux mailing list
> who say they'll buy Linux software, but that's not enough for most
> stores to keep it on the shelves. Let's face it, Linux just ain't
> that popular. :(
> 

    I don't know about that. I would have been in the front of the line to buy software just a few years ago. Then I learned to use repositories. Then came OS software management such as Yast. Then I learned about tools like alien. Now all I have to do is download a .rpm or .deb and let my OS install it if it's not available from a repository. It's the mindset that it can't be good because it's freely available that I had to overcome. Granted, Gnucash does not look as pretty as Peachtree but it does what I need. Why would I pay for software when it's freely downloadable? Support you say? Then if support that actually solved problems was available, why are there so many forums devoted to pay software? My 2¢.
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