I know I said that part 3 would be the end, but, as you can see, it was not. A lot of people made a lot of good comments (and a lot of spam, which has been deleted) on the three previous parts so I decided to quote some of those so people can see them/I can respond to them. With good comments, though, come long comments, so in most cases I only quoted a piece of the comment.

Paul Zarucki said:
“Another class of home users, and possibly some small businesses, creative professionals, etc., might be those that depend on a friendly neighbourhood “geek” for their tech support. Geeks like me, who have gone wholeheartedly over to FLOSS, have lost all interest in supporting Windows and don’t want to waste time learning how to fix problems that people have with it.”

True. I have nothing to add. This is somewhat similar to a word-of-mouth type of spreading, which I believe may be the main way Linux will spread.

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