Tony Travis wrote: > alan c wrote: >> norman wrote: >>> I believe that the very laudable efforts in promoting the use of Ubuntu >>> need to be tempered with an element of caution. As far as I can tell, >>> the server application is well covered and taken care of and my concern >>> is with the desktop user, of which I am one. >>>[...] >>> >>> Norman >> >> I concur with your view, and sympathise, counting myself fortunate >> that so far - as far as I know, I have not had similar problems, >> though I do have an important machine with a scanner - via usb - >> rarely used, I will need to check it. When I have time. >> [...] > > Hello, Norman and Alan. > > Have you ever upgraded Windows? > > Or MacOS? > > Believe me, Debian/Ubuntu is much, much easier to upgrade! > > However, I use 6.06.1 LTS for all the reasons you mention :-)
Personally I can handle it, and I agree absolutely about windows (not used Mac) - for me windows was something I could never trust and caused a lot of worry. That why I use Linux. Linux added 10 years to my life! However my point was that since I am in the voluntary 'business' of active advocacy, I am aware that if novices install (Ubuntu) and then need support, they will not get it yet from a Friend or Family Member (FOFM) as they currently do using windows - except me! and my skill is spread pretty thin. So I can see myself possibly holding back and not encouraging some of my contacts into Ubuntu, because from what I know (about them) they will have no support. (FOFM). My expectation is that this will change with time, soon I hope. -- Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/