Octalus: “Getting laptops shipped with Linux would probably have the largest impact. I'd nuke it, but I keep it around in case someone needs help with windows, I can boot it and walk them through it.” I still have windows, even though I've not booted it since initially setting up this laptop about 6mo ago…and I've used Linux going on 10yrs. ![]() I always recommend dual booting for at least 6mo before making a decision to nuke windows. Then they run into some problem they can't overcome. They use Linux a few days, think it's awesome, blow away windows. Ken0201: “Think is really what happens to most. The exception is my girlfriend who only ever uses a browser, but even then I left her with Windows for a year to make sure she wasn't lying.” NotThatTree: “For me, every single time I've installed Linux for someone, they seem to like it fine, but then a few days/weeks later they desperately need to run some Windows app or another for school or work and there's no way to get it running easily on Linux. Secondly, as everybody has mentioned, work on finding a partner who's willing to sell appliances with Elementary pre-installed, then test the hell out of it until it breaks. These are the things that piss people off who otherwise don't care about the OS, they just want to get their shit done. Things like language switching not always working, inconsistent font rendering, certain PDF's not being displayed properly. I was tasked with developing a spin based on Debian to migrate from Windows for 100's of users, and literally, nearly every simple task would have some minor issue that the user would come up with. If you want to get to the 5%, you have to understand that probably 4.8% of said users couldn't care less about the OS, they just want to work/play. You have 100% take yourself out of the equation and make sure that these things just work. Put yourself in the shoes of your average users who want to perform mundane tasks such as scanning, printing, web browsing, mounting USB sticks, burning CD's, zipping, unzipping files, viewing organizing photos etc. Jampola: “Everything needs to be working A+, it needs and polished. Įlinks is being actively maintained: version 0.16.1.1 was released. On 1 December, 2020, the felinks repository on Github was renamed to elinks because the old elinks was no longer being actively maintained. On 17 November 2017, ELinks was forked into another program called felinks meaning forked elinks. On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers. On 1 September 2004, Baudiš handed maintainership of the project over to Danish developer Jonas Fonseca, citing a lack of time and interest and a desire to spend more time coding rather than reviewing and organising releases. Since then, the E has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended. ![]() It began in late 2001 as an experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the E in the name. 0.16.0rc1 (3 December 2022 5 months ago ( )) Įnglish, Polish, Danish, French, Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, GermanĮLinks is a free text-based web browser for Unix-like operating systems.
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