WindowsvsLinux-a foreigner's opinion on Linux usage in China

WindowsvsLinux-a foreigner's opinion on Linux usage in China-general Linux technology-Linux technology and application information. The following is a detailed description. Disputes over the advantages and disadvantages of Windows and Linux have been found in almost every Linux forum. In the desktop market, Windows and Linux are endless. Today, someone raised this topic in the company forum. Next I will turn to a foreign colleague's views and Prospects on Linux usage in China. There may be some mistakes in the translation process. You are welcome to put forward your views:

One of the factors behind Linux's continued growth in many parts of the world is its freedom and openness. This allows people, even at home, to use powerful tools and use their skills to build powerful solutions (note: as far as I know, he built a telephone system using Asterisk in his own house ). Similar to these powerful tools on other platforms, it takes a lot of money. In many cases, for home users, this requires learning and mastering too much knowledge. As a result, at least in the early stage, a large number of technical types made them unable to master Linux and thought it was far more powerful than their creativity. Writing clean and portable code is very important. Even major game manufacturers see this as an important step, which leads to the fact that we don't really understand what it means ).

Most of the things can be done on Linux, or even more than on Windows... (maybe better ). At the same time, Linux has made great efforts in desktop applications to make the user experience more friendly and convenient. The entire GNOME and KDE project focuses on desktop applications. Many Linux branch versions, such as Ubuntu, are widely known recently.

Nowadays, a large number of non-technical people are flocking to try Linux. Some smart people have optimized it after a long period of work, this reduces the fear of Windows users. Of course, sometimes Linux is not as comfortable as Windows. In many cases, these users love it and stay with it... at least most of the work can be done in Linux on Windows.

Linux obviously has more obstacles than the Chinese desktop market in other parts of the world. Almost all released software running on Chinese Windows XP has more or less problems. Most of the software, due to problems with the source and low requirements for it, often does not run very well, some software itself has problems but there is no useful information... of course, from my experience, to solve this problem, I had to customize software for a local market. But this has never been seen before. I emphasize high quality software... whatever the case... if you want to run such software, you may not have such luck with Linux... online Banking should only require a Web browser... but later, there was a terrible problem with chicken and eggs... (for this section, as I raised a question about using online banking in Linux, he explained it ).

Why do people in China embrace Linux and use it to work, fix and improve software that is not very convenient? All commercial applications can be paid for in charge, and everyone can get any software for free... so I guess only those fully developed and open-source applications, a comprehensive feature set, and the ability to run on multiple platforms will make progress. In the near future, as more and more software will be improved through the international open source community, the rest may be gradually improved... ... I don't believe most people now have the motivation to make windows alternatives because they know they are in China, especially when they know that everything is free...

Linux has a lot of powerful commercial support... the growth of the entire open source software array has taken an amazing step...

In the long run, I don't know that either party (Windows or Linux) will surpass its competitors... microsoft is a large company with a lot of money and a lot of shareholders... they will lose part of their market share, but they can afford it... in addition, they will respond and respond, they will produce better products and provide a better price to maintain competitiveness, we have seen that many new Microsoft products have some unix/Linux/open features.