The top reason in the article is “Linux doesn’t run a program I use.” And as much as there are many free and open source software out there, people have special needs and for that, special software is needed. Our graphics team in the office need the Adobe Creative Suite. They did try GIMP but it just didn’t cut it for them. This causes so much frustration and agony for users who want to be productive.  So for them, Windows + Adobe Creative Suite is still the practical choice.

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I personally have an idea of the pain people encounter for reason number 2: “I installed Linux, but some element of my hardware didn’t work!” My old laptop has a Broadcom driver and I had to go ask someone to really walk me through the entire deal of fixing it so that I could go online using wifi. If I didn’t have to help me with it, there’s the possibility of me quitting Linux as well. Unfortunately, this is sometimes related with the other reasons such as “I posted a message on a forum, but Linux people were mean to me” and more often than not, it is related to “I installed Linux and things went honey-nut-loops crazy.”

But here’s a question I’d like to ask, if those things made you give up, what would have convinced you otherwise?

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Was it hell? Did you need much tweaking? Were there times that you had to reinstall or you had to reconfigure something?

Drop by and let us know here on New Linux User.;)

Edit: Sorry I had a typo! It’s Ubuntu 8.04 indeed. Thanks for the comments.

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