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I am currently in the process of writing my 4th year dissertation for my Computer Networking honours degree, my dissertation is on switching from a Windows domain environment to a Linux one and how that effects end users.
As part of this I am carrying out some research in an effort to gauge end users opens to change. I have made a short survey that will take no more than 5 minutes. I would love to have some feedback from Linux users. If you could take 5 minutes to complete the survey, I will be extremely grateful.
Just went through it and was a bit baffled about the questions regarding the aesthetics of Linux. I hope you realize that open source OSes like Linux and BSD don't have a standard look, unlike Windows or OS X, and that different distributions look and feel different, dependent on which DE/WM is in use and how they theme/mod it, so that this question actually does not apply.
Thanks for your feedback. This survey is aimed at end users, one of the aims of my project is to find out if people are aware of other operating systems. The questions about brand and aesthetics are to licit a response from people how may have not necessarily used one of the OS's. It will give me a rough idea on what the average user thinks about Linux...if they think anything at all. It is also going build on some marketing research, analysing why people make the choices they do.
I realise that Linux comes in many flavours with wildly different user interfaces, as part of this project I have lined up a series of more in depth interviews with Domain admins, and technicians. The questions I will ask them will be aimed at a much higher level, I will also be able to get much more specific answers, relating to the real world implementation of my project.
I have also got three interviews with ICT mangers lined up, this is to see what the business case would have to be in order to implement change. If you are anyone else here is an IT manager, I would love to here your views on what it would take for you to change your domain technologies, weather from Windows to Linux, or vice versa.
"If you are only doing a migration because you think it saves you money there's always somebody who tells you afterwards that you didn't calculate it properly," he said.
"Our main goal was to become independent." Peter Hoffman, project lead "That was the experience of a lot of open source-based projects that have failed," Hofmann noted. They were only cost-driven and when the organisation got more money or somebody else said 'The costs are wrong' then the main reason for doing it had broken away. That was never the main goal within the City of Munich. Our main goal was to become independent."
PS. you should adjust several of your open ended questions. those are a bad way to get proper feedback.
I agree most of the questions you asked didn't apply to Linux as an end user much. There are better ways it can be stated. How much of a Linux user are you yourself? I'm just curious because it's difficult to gauge a product without some kind of long term use.
Sag47: The questions are designed to get an idea what of what os's end users know about and have used, they are also designed with specific aims in mind, either to build on research that has already be carried out (by someone else) or to feed into a paticular part of the project, each question is there for a reason...although that reason may not be clear to the participant.
This survey has went through about 5 drafts, and has been signed of my supervisor (Who is a Professor of computing), so it cannot be changed now. I do appreciate all feedback though.
I am a big linux user, I am a 4th year student who has spent a lot of time learning how to use and administrate Linux/UNIX. I also work as a technician in ICT, and although it is mainly a Windows Domain, I am strong advocate for getting linux based servers in as much as possible...unfortunately due to my level in the department at the moment, I dont have much say. At home I use Ubuntu as my main OS, Backtrack for uni work and debian on a number of virtual servers I have running.
Yancek
I haven't posted it on a windows forum, but windows is by far the post common os used at people work at the moment in the results, so there is no need to.
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