I was pointing out the quote refers to developers, not users. The quote was that those developers who like MS do so because of productivity. That is a pretty significant finding. Sure, people may be enthusiastic about linux, but some people are interested in other things.

I like linux, but I do find that it can involve a lot of frigging about - which is unproductive. I also find it frustrated that in some areas, documentation is poor. I tried to install the Maemo SDK on ubuntu. I followed the manual install to the letter - and yet the install process threw up loads of errors. So, in order to use this, I would need to go through the logs and work out what the errors were and what was throwing them up, then figure out what was wrong and needs fixing. Some people might enjoy that - I find it unproductive. When I set up my Debian again, I will have another go at setting it up - and QT as well - but, if I follow a procedure and it doesn't work, and there is no obvious way of resolving that without a lot of messing about... I can't be bothered really.

It is like MeeGo on the netbook or n900 - I'll look at it, and if I can try it without breaking anything I will do that. But if it doesn't work, or it looks like it will break something that works... I can't be bothered.

I have things that do work. I have installed several environments that don't involve a lot of messing about to get them to work - you follow the instructions and they work. If the documentation doesn't yield a working environment, it doesn't give me confidence about working with that system.

Now, somebody can say I don't understand - but if people cannot communicate the benefit of something, provide something that functions, or works after following the documentation - they are the ones with a problem, not me. Telling me I am ignorant doesn't really make it any better.

Mish.