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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: 2) by frojack on Monday April 07 2014, @01:11AM

    by frojack (1554) on Monday April 07 2014, @01:11AM (#27235) Journal

    Ye gads man, Linux was pretty terrible to use back in 95.

    Not really.

    We were using it as our file server back then with no particular problems.
    Samba was in its early releases back in 95, and it was at least as stable as Windows and a whole
    lot cheaper than Netware.

    True, its windowing system was primitive then, but for our uses, Linux (First RedHat, then S.u.S.E. in 64) were spot on for the task we needed.

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