The "Linux-World-Domination-Plan"

[RYX]

I had a very interesting idea to make Linux the number one on the desktop (it came to my mind while creating the "girlie"-theme for my StickNotes-Screenlet):

If we can get more girls/women to switch to Linux, the guys will likely follow - first to impress, second for their own interest and third (and most important) because they are forced to due to lack of knowledge on the female side ;)

So how do we get girls to switch to Linux? The answer is: with eye-candy! Most girls/women don't know (or even care) about technical issues. That means they see something, like it and want to have it ... I'd rather hand-to-hand fight with a bear than telling my girlfriend: "No, you use Windows - you cannot have that nice eye-candy I have on my desktop! Go and blame Bill Gates, not me ..." (we all know where that leads to :x)

So the plan is: create nice (and most important: useless) eye-candy apps for Linux, show it to all your female friends and tell them: "This cute, tiny, pastell-colored application does only work on a Linux PC, which btw is free. I am sure your boyfriend will install it on your PC ..."

:idea: :!: :) :D :twisted: .... muhahahaha ....

:)

[mikedee]

Load snow plugin but with hearts and flowers instead of snowflakes
Choose pink desktop and gtk theme
Modify animation so that burn becomes flower explosion
Modify snow to have ponies in the background
Add webcam plugin to act as computer mirror. Just reverse the image and put it in a letterbox sized osd at the top of the screen, they will be famaliar with that.
Once a month windows go very dark and flowers die (user configurable)

Job done ;)

[RYX]

... and don't forget the pink sticky-notes with hearts and flowers. :D

[mikedee]

... and don't forget the pink sticky-notes with hearts and flowers. :D

I see from the screenlets that you are serious about this and have already made some headway :D

[RYX]

:D

Maybe I am not 100% serious in my plan (it isn't total nonsense), but as you can see I really made that "girlie"-theme for my girlfriend (she is older than me, but she still likes that stuff) ... and she is very happy with it. And doesn't the chaos-theory tell us that a small sticky-note on a girl's desktop can become a world-wide revolution that changes the desktop as such (didn't chaos-theory say that?) ...

:)

[MacSlow]

Funny idea, worth a try :)

Best regards...

MacSlow

[nightfrost]

Wow, you guys must have a lot of weird female friends. Stereotypes are mostly made-up, and definitely never in majority. And almost always the product of someone's imagination.

In fact, I could on top off my head probably mention a few hundred women who would most probably never use compiz if they saw this thread. (Most of them university people)...

[RYX]

Obviously it was more a joke than meant serious ... :) ... but I still feel that the "plan" is realizable ...

I think stereotypes exist and are widely abused within the marketing industry. The majority of people in our society stopped using their brains a while ago and only believe and do what other people tell them is cool and hip ... Sure - some people maybe need some time to get convinced ... but finally they do what everyone does.

Big companies have been throwing their "baits" at the stupid majority for a long time to get them to buy their product XYZ ... so why shouldn't the open-source world throw out some baits, too ... ? Well-placed promotion and catching some attention can't be bad ...

It's all about building a better world for our children ...

:)

[watkin5]

Big companies have been throwing their "baits" at the stupid majority for a long time to get them to buy their product XYZ ... so why shouldn't the open-source world throw out some baits, too ... ?
RXY - Do you also believe in the stereotypically fat, smelly, arrogant nerd OS developer who couldn't care less about ignorant users? :P

[lowfi]

I think stereotypes exist and are widely abused within the marketing industry.

yes they obvioulsy do. :roll:
You're right about marketing strategies, but that doesn't mean we have to follow, does it ?!

@nightfrost: Exactly.

anyway, "World Domination prodceeding as planed!" :D

[RYX]

RYX - Do you also believe in the stereotypically fat, smelly, arrogant nerd OS developer who couldn't care less about ignorant users? :P
Hmmm ... yes - but things are getting better I think (*looking into the mirror*) ... :)
No - seriuosly, you're right! Stereotypes are stupid relics of ancient "science" ... but they often (seem to) apply to sociological areas. Especially the behaviour of the "big mass" of the society is really stereotypical ... (an example: one of those stupid little gangsta kiddies starts putting his pants into the socks because he saw 50cent doing it on TV, now all little gangstas do it - without even knowing that the real gangstas only did/do that for easier storing things within their pants while robbing/stealing in a store, not for following any kind of fashion ... and this is not only valid for kids, but for adults as well).

The free software world would utilize the stereotypes for people's and society's best, not for another companies' or country's big deal. If the free software world gets a little better marketing, more and more people understand the connection between free software and freedom in general. Call me paranoid but Microsoft have to be stopped and free software is the only acceptable solution ... (did you hear the latest stories about the NSA "helping" Microsoft with Vista? The finally confirmed it ... so: goodbye privacy).

:)

[euskal]

Wow, you guys must have a lot of weird female friends. Stereotypes are mostly made-up, and definitely never in majority. And almost always the product of someone's imagination.

(easy joke :p)

:P, mac girls are the hottest, I mean it by xPerience

and cozz they dance better tango http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango_dance