{"id":36,"date":"2009-12-28T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/?p=36"},"modified":"2009-12-28T14:34:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T19:34:12","slug":"linux-you-can-try-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/get-linux\/linux-you-can-try-it","title":{"rendered":"Linux: you can try it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can try Linux before changing anything on your Hard Drive. This is one of the reasons why Linux is so awesome.\u00a0 This allowed me to try out Linux and I still use it today.\u00a0 I still try out Linux with <a title=\"A CD-ROM that contains a working copy of an operating system or other application that is run without installing it\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/encyclopedia_term\/0,2542,t=LiveCD&amp;i=58080,00.asp\"><strong>LIVE CDs<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many people purchase computers from online or &#8220;in store&#8221; retailers.\u00a0 At Best Buy you can get a Windows-based or Mac OS-X based PC.\u00a0 Can you get a Linux-based PC?\u00a0 Well, I didn&#8217;t see any in my local Best Buy.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m not trying to generalize about all Best Buy &amp; I hope they don&#8217;t mind me using their name.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m inclined to believe that Linux-based PCs make less profit than Mac or Windows-based machines.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it.\u00a0 Linux is not popular among retailers.\u00a0 Linux retail sales are probably low due to the nature of Linux itself\u2014freely distributable, and a download gets it for you.\u00a0 When you can download and burn your own CD or DVD installer, why pay someone else to do it, right?<\/p>\n<p>Typical end result: Linux is rarely considered for purchase.\u00a0 People don&#8217;t want to &#8220;tinker&#8221; with a &#8220;toy&#8221; \u2014they want to get on the internet, check email, share pictures, and stay in touch with others.\u00a0 <a title=\"When consumers are so hung up on brand name that it replaces product name\" href=\"http:\/\/itsjustmoney.blogs.com\/its_just_money\/2006\/06\/the_ultimate_in.html\">Consumers can also be &#8220;brand-centric&#8221;<\/a> (example: kleenex) and may feel lost without Microsoft Word.<\/p>\n<p>A Linux operating system does all of the things that other operating systems do. \u00a0 Using &#8220;LIVE CDs&#8221; permits you to try out a particular type or &#8220;flavor&#8221; of Linux without modifying your computer.\u00a0 That is, unless you want to perform the install from the Live CD, which is <strong>not<\/strong> <strong>stumbled upon<\/strong> <strong>by accident<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When using a LIVE CD, Linux allows people to try it before changing their computers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18,19,17],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-get-linux","tag-cd","tag-distro","tag-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}