Comment 236 for bug 1

We have a slightly different problem in France. Machines in stores are preinstalled with XP and Vista quite soon for a few reasons :

1. Training on Linux not generalized and not delivered by training centres equally in ratio with MS courses.
2. People use XP at work and associated desktop applications. They do not feel that they should use a different OS at home, hence be isolated in case of problems.
3. Genrally, they do not buy these applications, they copy for personal use and some editors allow this, antivirus for instance.
4. Primarily a language barrier problem, if one decides to go in at the deep end.
5. Then, we get into Technical Support, most of the guys at the stores don’t have a clue of what is Linux. The techies play games on XP, so why would they learn Linux?
6. Solidarity InterLugs. Why would somebody making a search on a search engine and discover interlugs wars for supremacy and control of X city be interested to be part of these communities, hence trolls. Linux appears in the eyes of the layman as an OS for a class of knowledgeable people to start with and that some Lugs will go as far as hacking other lugs site in order to be seen as _the_ lug of X city?
7. I have sort mentioned that earlier, games and applications, not the same on both platforms.
8. OEM agreements for selling motherboards etc?

Just my two cents,
Cheers,
Jimmy