Where Can Linux Leap Ahead - Part 1
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007While reading today’s news stories for Linux, I noticed the release of LightZone, a commercial program for editing and managing pictures, for Linux. This made me think about Linux’s target audience. While many distros seem to be marketing themselves to the “average” user, it seems to me that the “average” user is not tech savvy enough to care about Linux or anything other than Windows, Microsoft Office, and their work.
In this series of articles, I will cover the following groups of computer users and what ties they have to existing platforms and what potential attractions they have to Linux.
- Home User - Tied into work’s system
- Home User - Not tied into work’s system
- Large Business
- Small Business
- Creative Professional
- Geek
- Traveler
- University
In this part I will cover the two types of home users — those tied into their work’s system and those free from their work’s system.
