On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Xen <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom H schreef op 11-10-2016 16:52: >> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Xen <[email protected]> wrote:
I'll reply quickly to the beginning and read and reply to the rest tomorrow. >>> That's not really true. The vast majority of people would go screaming >>> for a Windows or Mac PC if they had Linux preinstalled. >>> >>> The level of system maintenance I would have to give to my family for >>> a Linux box is about 95%. >> >> Please don't extrapolate from your experience to all. >> >> I maintain three laptops for non-technical users and they're running >> Ubuntu quite happily. > > You say "maintain". I have never "maintained" anyone's Windows systems. I > just fixed stuff when it was broken and that was a very irregular event, > very very rarely. There was no maintenance in that sense. It is mostly "set > up and forget". What I mean by maintain is make sure that updates are installed, just like on Windows and macOS. One of the laptops is my neighbor's. I whatsapp her to see whether it's a good time, and if it is, I switch to her wifi network, ssh in, and run apt-get. I visit my parents once a week and I do the same on their laptops. > And I was not extrapolating from Ubuntu experience (in that sense, > supporting people with it) because I have never ever installed it on someone > else's System. I was extrapolating from my Windows experience. So, what you > say and what I say do not necessarily conflict, particularly if you attest > to "maintaining" those laptops for other peole which is precisely the > relationship I indicated. I used to do the same as I now do with Ubuntu with my parents' laptops when they were running Windows six years ago. > Could you take yourself out of the equation for those 3 laptops for a year > without a problem? Absolutely. I'd switch on the update thingy for them to click OK for their systems to be updated. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
