One of my clients has a dual-boot system so that WHEN Windows goes wrong he can still use the machine but he is reluctant to use Ubuntu and keeps making increasingly small excuses for not trying it. The latest was the nautilus file-browser displays things as icon (queue long rant). Before he had finished ranting i had changed the default.
He has an ancient hand-held which used to need some proprietary software to synch with the machine. Ubuntu has something better (covers more machines) free but he can't get a copy of the software he used in Xp. The only blocker now is the few minutes/hours he would need to set-up the UserID on the hand-held and in JPilot to allow them to synch. He is happier with the idea of spending days or even weeks trying to get another copy of the old proprietary software which will still need him to spend a few minutes/hours sorting the UserID on both the hand-held and in the software. When people feel that many days and hours sorting a Windows problem is fine but spending a few minutes on a Linux problem is unbearable it is difficult and frustrating for us. In Windows everything "just works" is a lie but one that is believed by people even as they spend many hours trying to fix a flaky Windows system. Regards from Tom :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for Debian. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~registry Post to : registry@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~registry More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
