Operating system advocacy

Operating system advocacy is an attempt to increase the awareness and improve the perception of a given computer operating system. The motivation behind this is often to increase the number of users of that system, the assumption being that more users will lead, directly or indirectly, to greater improvement in the operating system ("OS"). The term is most commonly used to refer to OS's that are in the minority of usage, to compare to the OS that the majority already use. A further assumption often made by OS advocates is that most of the users of the majority OS only use it because they are familiar with it or they are locked in. Advocacy of the majority OS is most often in reaction to the sometimes over-zealous advocacy of the minority OS's.

External links

The Windows versus Mac OS X debate

• X vs. XP

The PC versus Macintosh debate

• {{citenewsauthor|url=http://www.mindspring.com/~mcameron/carylu.html|title=Computing's Holy War|given=Cary|surname=Lu|org=Seattle Times|date=1995-06-18}} — Lu presents various operating system advocacy arguments
• {{citenewsauthor|url=http://www.mindspring.com/~mcameron/simple_argument.html|title=A simple argument for the Mac|given=Peter|surname=Lewis|org=New York Times|date=1994-12-13}} — Lewis presents various operating system advocacy arguments

OS/2 advocacy

• "Should I Buy OS/2 Warp?"

Linux advocacy

• "Why Linux?"
• {{citepaper|URL=http://archives.seul.org/seul/pub/Dec-1998/msg00052.html|Title=Linux advocacy documents team?|Author=Roger Dingledine|PublishYear=1998-12-22}} — a proposal to coordinate Linux advocacy documents, along with a list of such documents

Macintosh advocacy

• MacInSchool's list of Mac advocacy articles