I totally agree with this, finally my dad has seen the last straw in his struggles with fucked up microsoft machines and the fact that I can't even fix many off them anymore, cause I'm almost totally kicked off from using that very bad system.
I once knew every aspect off that other OS for doing maintenance, now I've forgotten them all, but I know a lot off Unix-tools instead and my dad sees it to and we are now using and assessing it in our home environment. Kurt De Smet schreef: > We can make a difference, since Ubuntu I've completely removed M$ from > my pc's. I had many distro's RH, SuSe, Fedora etc.. but now it has > reached a level so user friendly anyone can use it. Don't talk about > installing cause 90% of the users can't install M$ either. And here we > can make a difference. > > Most of the Linux users have a fair good knowledge on how a pc works, > the kind of person people come to when there M$ system slows down to > much or is crawling with viruses to reinstall there os and programs for > free. I can only speak for myself but I can't count the times I've > reinstalled windows for people (oh yes, no charge at all). Now I give > them an alternative with Ubuntu (free as usual), if they refuse I say > they have to go to the vendor where they bought the pc (oh yes they have > to pay there and as usual they forget or won't install(printer,scanner > ...) drivers ;-) ). > > I'm tiered trying to convert people and mostly of tuning a M$ system > (after a month or less the system is f$*k'd up again). If they change to > Ubuntu I will help them as much as possible as I always did. If they > don't they can take there troubles somewhere else and pay for it. > > If we all do it how long will it take? Let them learn the hard way, > because they won't take the easy way. > > Just my nine pence ;-) > > > > Amedee Van Gasse schreef: > >> An interesting article featured on /. >> http://blog.anamazingmind.com/2008/02/why-linux-doesnt-spread-curse-of-being.html >> >> >> >> > > > -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
