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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 wonkey_monkey on Monday April 07 2014, @07:37AM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Monday April 07 2014, @07:37AM (#27320) Homepage

    How many of them will have given up on Linux after six months and grudgingly gone back to Windows?

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Monday April 07 2014, @03:02PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Monday April 07 2014, @03:02PM (#27541) Homepage Journal

    I'd say almost none that go the KDE route. Their computers will be faster and the interface completely familiar. Switching to KDE from any version of Windows (except perhaps W8) is far less of a change than switching from one flavor of Windows to another.

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