Re: [Hampshire] You win some, you loose some.

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 19:34 +0000, Tim wrote:
> On Friday 06 March 2009 18:56:37 Rik wrote:
> > 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).
> >
> > The winners are those in the know :-)
>
> We had an Acer laptop at work which had been problem-matic, it would keep
> loosing the CD drive (despite a couple of reinstalls) and the touch pad was as
> sensitive as a sumo wrestler arse (regardless of and adjustments of the
> settings). Add to that it was a slow dog to use (running XP). So when the
> opportunity came for it to be retired the user took it.
>
> I had the laptop sat under my desk and I needed something to test the latest (at
> the time) release candidate of Mepis 8. So I tried it on the laptop, the live
> CD booted and everything worked so I installed it, It was like cutting the
> restraints that had been holding the laptop back. Its now flying, I have yet to
> have any CD drive problem, the touch pad works perfectly.
>
> Sometimes its not a hardware that causes the problem its the operating system
> you choose.
>
> Tim
>
I could not agree more.

I wonder if dual core processors were invented for Windows ? One core
for the operating system to use, the other for all the security software
and scanners..... I chuckle to myself :-)