My two lads use only one thing outside of web browser and that is games and that's changing as they prefer Eve rather than paying through the nose for buggy software.
I personally, am a Google fan so do everything via that with only my Story 'Writers cafe' software separately. when that appears online I will change. I have an Acer One and just put Moblin onto it and what a little distribution that is going to be. Dale On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> wrote: > John wrote: > > Has anybody seen this, and does anybody have Windows 7 to compare. > > > > I find this quite interesting though. > > > > http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2770&tag=nl.e550 > > > > John > > > I did have Windows 7 installed, in fact I'll be sticking it on the > wife's PC this week too. I'd agree with some of the article, I mean a > lot of things teenagers do now are web based - Facebook, Youtube, Gmail, > Hotmail, MySpace, Twitter, Bebo, hey even MSN is now web based. > Whenever my step kids (who are all in their teens) use the PC they fire > up a browser, they never bother looking at any of other applications > (never mind if they're on a Windows or Ubuntu based PC). > > Of course this wouldn't apply to everyone, some people still do need > Windows apps or some do use Linux apps, but for the basic user who just > wants to keep in touch with their friends then usually they just need a > browser (hey my step kids have even happily used the browser on the Wii). > > Rob > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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