1. Adoption for the non-tech elite: Ubuntu sells itself as an attractive alternative to the masses. Being that Windows is what 90 percent of the computer-using public is comfortable with, Ubuntu stands the best chance at adoption by offering something familiar.
2. It doesn't have to look that way: Go to Gnome-Looks.org and see for yourself. You can make the GUI look like nearly anything. I've seen clean desktops that use a series of orb icons to navigate through applications and the file structure. That's the real beauty of Linux. It's not what they give you, it's what you can make.
3. Judge not by a single photo: A lot of Ubuntu is radically different, and actually more intuitive, from Windows. It just takes more than a fleeting glance at a single photo to experience that.
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Mike, it's similar to Windows for several reason.
1. Adoption for the non-tech elite: Ubuntu sells itself as an attractive alternative to the masses. Being that Windows is what 90 percent of the computer-using public is comfortable with, Ubuntu stands the best chance at adoption by offering something familiar.
2. It doesn't have to look that way: Go to Gnome-Looks.org and see for yourself. You can make the GUI look like nearly anything. I've seen clean desktops that use a series of orb icons to navigate through applications and the file structure. That's the real beauty of Linux. It's not what they give you, it's what you can make.
3. Judge not by a single photo: A lot of Ubuntu is radically different, and actually more intuitive, from Windows. It just takes more than a fleeting glance at a single photo to experience that.