[aklug] Re: windoze 7 sucks

On 10/18/2010 10:13 PM, Mike Gonnason wrote:

> You aren't the target market I guess.

I'll never be in their market, let alone their target market.
Yesterday's rant was more of an poorly contained overflow after a "fun"
experience trying to get my dad's new laptop set up for him under
Windows 7. If it was entirely up to me, I would have set him up with
Ubuntu: but everybody else in the family seemed to think that Linux was
too complicated for him, and I didn't have the energy to convince them
all, and then look into the driver issues, etc.

Sigh... Linux could easily do everything he wants to do, and probably
twice as fast. It's too bad Windows has such a tight grip on the desktop
market. Unfortunately, the Linux-on-your-netbook craze didn't give Linux
desktop the boost everyone was hoping for. (Personally, I never believed
that selling Linux on slow, cheapo netbooks was going to convince anyone.)

Is there are big PC resellers/manufactures out there these days really
marketing Linux on the desktop? Dell has made them available, but never
really stood behind them. ("Dell recommends Windows Vista!" bleh)

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Christopher Howard
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