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Originally Posted by mattylad
The thing is, if for instance you try & tell a child how to do a maths sum, but your using a different method to the one they have been taught, they child will get extremely upset trying to say that they must do it the same way (well all mine did).
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Careful what you say- David Beckham got slated in the press when he said exactly the same thing about Brooklyn's homework.
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Originally Posted by mattylad
So by using a different OS & different packages to those thatthey use at school, things are going to be different...
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I don't think it's that big a deal... Kids can remember the controls for a dozen different games at any given time. A few different versions of the same basic application, with common concepts and shortcuts aren't going to make much difference.
I had Ubuntu installed on my laptop for a few months. It was OK, but hard work to maintain, even for a geek like me. The days of an IT department with an almost godlike status have all-but disappeared, and IT users are too "empowered" to risk those days coming back. Your typical office worker will want a PC with a few hundred quid's worth of operating system and productivity software on it that they can rely on, something that works with icons and buttons, not scpripts and (often) a command-line interface. They'll want "words of one syllable" support from internet searches they can do themself, not an hour on the 'phone with some socially-challenged geek explaining in intricate detail a process that will fail if just one aspect is even slightly wrong.
An extreme example? Perhaps. But until Linux standardises into one version it's never going to replace Windows. I'd love for it to become mainstream, really. It's just not going to happen until regular users can cope.