Adopting the Linux Operating System

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This paper describes inhibitors to adopting, installing as new or upgrading, the Linux or Unix operating system in a desktop or workstation environment. The paper includes an annotated bibliography.

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"Throughout history, humans have been resistant to making significant changes voluntarily, but have proven reasonably adaptable when the change is forced. Users are generally unlikely to be excited by the prospect of learning a different operating system and application software, but usually grow to enjoy the stability and consistency of Unix that other systems lack. (Wilson) Training Windows users on Unix is generally little more difficult than training them to use a new version of Windows. (Zamaris) Using Unix does have one significant difference for the end-users: the crashes, unexpected configuration changes and malware infestations common to Windows systems will no longer interfere with worker productivity. No matter what the benefits are, there will always be a few users who are unable to deal with any changes whatsoever. It is generally not beneficial for an organization to employ people who cannot adapt. Migrating to Unix desktops provides a good opportunity to identify and terminate them."

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