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____/ Tony(UK) on Thursday 21 May 2009 09:08 : \____
> Our friend Dawn and her 15 year old daughter came to visit last Monday,
> Dawn having bought a new Toshiba laptop. She has Windows Vista installed
> with Office 2007. After using Windows for the last 8 years or so at home
> and at work, she tells me she hates both Vista and Office, and uses Open
> Office and Firefox. We discussed open source software, and she replied
> she knew nothing about it at all. She just used them because she liked
> them "Better than what the laptop came with". Dawn works as an
> administrator at Addenbrooke's hospital, Cambridge.
>
> I showed her Linux Mint and Ubuntu, currently running on two of my
> machines, and ran Ubuntu from a live CD so that she could look around and
> see if she found any problems with using it. Now for the bombshell.
> Her daughter then told her that she and her brothers had been using Linux
> for the last year, and she could help in teaching her if she got into
> trouble! Communication problems between mother and siblings methinks!
>
> She took away a Ubuntu disc, and she is coming over with her brand new
> Toshiba laptop (which runs much faster even from CD than Vista, she tells
> me) to set up Ubuntu on it as she has given away the CD to her brother,
> who is now happily running Ubuntu as his desktop.
>
> I have helped a total of 49 people to now run Linux permanently. One has
> joined the Linux community as a developer, (thus having no tolerance for
> everyone beneath him!), 2 are running Linux Mint, and one runs Pardus (an
> under-rated distribution I feel). There has been no-one to my knowledge
> that has felt the need to return to Windows.
>
> Just thought I'd share my experiences of people who do not like Vista for
> day to day use on their desktops, here in the UK.
Great story, Tony. To tell you the truth, I never met someone who used Vista
(except a few online friends or friends from the gym). It's either Linux or
XP, where the latter is lagging behind in terms of looks and functionality. If
you ask people about Vista you soon find that they heard from friends (not TV
ads) that it's something to stay away from.
It is hard to believe that Vista has been "done" since November 2006. We're in
the middle of 2009.
- --
~~ Best of wishes
Networks are like sewers: my job is to make sure your data goes away when
you flush, and to stop the rats climbing into your toilet through the pipes.
- -- Tanuki describes network administration
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