What should we understand from this example? Majority of people do it that way?

Five years ago, or so, it was funny for me to play with hardware, as you describe. Now it's not. And by looking around, most people (not all, I now a lot of examples of geeks who are using their own Linux from scratch) are using computer just as a tool. Ubuntu is targeted exactly those people as far as I understand it (they are sometimes called 'beginners').

My point is: if Ubuntu was perfect, I can bet no one will ever use Windows. Any step to perfection means more users = market share, automatically leading to adoption on laptops/computers.

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:58 AM, alpharay <francisco.javier.santiago.ruiz@gmail.com> wrote:
Vladimir Meremyanin wrote:
>>> Money more than free excellence will make people shift to Linux. When
>>>
> people will they save 130€ (~ 200$) to use Ubuntu, it will make a bigger
> difference than a bunch of nice features and bugfixes.
>
> Completely disagree. People want their tool work. Predictability,
> simplicity is what some of us ready to pay for. Look at Mac OS. It costs
> money - yet, it has more users than Ubuntu does.
>
> What do you like more: broken car for free, or a good reliable for
> money?
>
>
It's not to show off, but I got my computer by around 300 dls, without
the monitor, I got everything myself, it was my first time doing it so I
had some problems as I got the cheapest memory, 400 gbs for around 100
buck which now I have to replace. but still was a great buy as I got 3.4
ghz, still got 2 gb of memory, and around 700 gb of space. with ubuntu I
got everythink I nee. --Thanks to Linux I am not paying Windows.

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