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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 gringer on Monday April 07 2014, @09:57AM

    by gringer (962) on Monday April 07 2014, @09:57AM (#27357)

    What I find interesting is that there are a number of PCs out there that have XP and don't fit the requirements for Windows 7 (or 8.1). I've recently shifted someone over to Puppy Linux because they only had 512MB of memory. This person only used Wordpad and Firefox, so there wasn't too much difficulty shifting to Linux with Abiword and Seamonkey (no complains yet, but I expect a few in the future). However if I encounter someone with similar computer specifications who spends a lot of time with more serious Microsoft products, I'd probably recommend that they stick with XP and swallow the risk.

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  • (Score: 1) by bwintx on Monday April 07 2014, @01:30PM

    by bwintx (1281) on Monday April 07 2014, @01:30PM (#27454)
    Another good choice for low-RAM PCs is LXLE [lxle.net], a derivative of Lubuntu. My wife was using our ancient home PC (512MB RAM) just to Web-surf on Chrome in XP, and I converted it from XP to LXLE a few days ago. I put her favorite bookmarks on Chromium, and she's happy. In fact, she likes it better because there's no longer a RAM-sucking anti-virus app running in the background.

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 07 2014, @03:20PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Monday April 07 2014, @03:20PM (#27558)

      I've heard of LXDE before...what's the second L supposed to mean?

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