{"id":2697,"date":"2013-04-16T21:14:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T02:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2013-04-16T21:14:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T02:14:53","slug":"switch-to-linux-if-windows-8-is-a-hassle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/04\/16\/switch-to-linux-if-windows-8-is-a-hassle","title":{"rendered":"Switch to Linux if Windows 8 is a hassle"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/b168cb16-a511-11e2-a94c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2QgIbkRQx\">Retreat in sales of PCs turns into rout &#8211; FT.com<\/a>: <em>&#8220;\u2018At the beginning, retailers don\u2019t know how to explain it to customers,\u2019 says Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner. \u2018Marketing the new [operating system] to consumers takes extra effort.\u2019&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, skip Windows 8 altogether and just switch to Linux. And for more elegant hardware, there&#8217;s always the Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retreat in sales of PCs turns into rout &#8211; FT.com: &#8220;\u2018At the beginning, retailers don\u2019t know how to explain it to customers,\u2019 says Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner. \u2018Marketing the new [operating system] to consumers takes extra effort.\u2019&#8221; Well, skip Windows 8 altogether and just switch to Linux. And for more elegant hardware, there&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1406],"tags":[4,494,16],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oss","tag-linux","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Hv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}