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Poll: More Will Switch to Linux Than to Win8

posted by janrinok on Sunday April 06 2014, @08:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-not-the-year-of-the-Linux-desktop dept.

gewg_ writes:

A recent poll by The Inquirer asked, "Which operating system will you use after Windows XP support ends on 8 April?"

Among respondents, 33 percent said they will move to Windows 7, 17 percent will stick with XP, 13 percent will switch to Linux, 11 percent will get Windows 8, and 5 percent said OS X.

So most will switch to Windows 7, but many would rather stay with Win XP without support than switch to Linux.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by ko on Monday April 07 2014, @12:28AM

    by ko (3999) on Monday April 07 2014, @12:28AM (#27220)

    I switched a couple years after you did. I think it was RedHat 5.2 at the time. I remember downloading the source to KDE over a dial-up connection and then waiting for it to build. Despite occasionally running a Windows instance (virtual or otherwise) when I really had to use a Windows-only version of software, Linux has been my primary desktop operating system since then.

    The vast majority of casual Windows users (who use their machines for email, web browsing, Facebook, slinging around pictures, etc.) would find all of the functionality and ease of use they're accustomed to in pretty much any modern Linux distribution.

    Oh, well.... Ignorance is bliss, or so they say.