On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:57:54 -0600, Stephan Rose wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:16:01 -0800, Paul Knudsen wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:23:12 -0600, Stephan Rose <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>I install Ubuntu on it. You know what happened to her plans to buy a
>>>new Vista computer? They went down the drain. She's perfectly happy now
>>>with her machine and saved herself quite some money.
>>>
>>>So that is one person who tried Linux and the only thing that was
>>>quickly dumped was the idea of buying a Vista computer.
>>
>> Fine. Not everyone has a guru to do installs for them.
>
> That goes for Windows as much as it goes for Linux though. This person
> is about as capable of installing windows as she is installing linux:
> Not at all. I suspect that is the reason for the success of companies
> such as Dell...preinstalled systems which don't need the user to know
> how to install an OS. :)
The significant point (to me at least) is that people replace their
systems not because the hardware is too old or too slow or damaged in any
way, but because the OS has gotten screwed up over time. I've seen the
same thing.
Charlie
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