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Kubuntu setup made easy for the Windows user

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I noticed that people keep comparing it to installing Windows, or anything similar. To the average user, a computer already runs Windows on the fly, they just don’t know why, it’s already been like that ever since, like something straight out of the assembly line. But the truth is any compatible operating system can be installed on a computer, and not just the one that you buy off the computer store. It’s just that due to the technical nature of Linux, it scared off a lot of ordinary users. Linux (here, locally) has been stereotyped as something more of a hobbyist’s trivial pursuit, an enthusiast’s fancy. Aside from that, people weren’t just ready to learn something new (and hard).

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Written by Mike Suria

October 21, 2007 at 11:08 pm

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