Author: Rik Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] You win some, you loose some.
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 17:29 +0000, Lisi wrote: > I have recently acquired a new client whose problems required a reinstall,
> but he hadn't got any disks. I told him what I saw as the options and he
> chose Linux. That evening he rang his son-in-law "who knows about
> computers", and he rang me next day to say that he has decided that he would
> rather buy XP. :-( But he had at least heard of Linux.
>
> The same day I had a call from someone who has been using Linux happily for a
> couple of years now. He has one or two problems that need sorting out - and
> he wants to buy a laptop. The criteria are:
>
> 1) It must run Linux. That seemed to be the single most important thing! :-)
> 2) He wants to carry it around with him to do word processing and use a
> spreadsheet when he is away from home.
> 3) As cheap as possible within those parameters.
>
> But I had to ask him to get those last two criteria. The only thing that he
> was most insistent on as being the brief was that it should run Linux! He
> had seen Vista and was adamant that he did _not_ want to be landed with it.
>
> Lisi
>
>
You have to smile. The old windownians bang on about 'the cost of
ownership' with Linux and I could not agree more. I don't have to worry
about the cost of owning Anti-Virus, Software Firewall, Office Suite,
Database Suite, constant loss of productivity with patching and cyclic
rebooting therein and the plethora of security issues that make people
too scared to visit any web page.
I recently purchased my first laptop for *me*. Not one for the kids, but
one of my own. Even despite the minor hassle I had with the wireless it
was still much easier to get it to work that the same laptop running
Vista had been (my poor daughter).
