Usually I am wary of tempting people to switch, but since it's my mum I know Ubuntu will do exactly what she needs without any hiccups (well, non I can think of) since all she does is type up work things, and check her emails / look for holidays online. And I have to do all the technical work at home anyway, her switching would just mean I can actually say 'just type this and hit enter' rather than try remember how to do everything on Windows.
2009/1/16 Sean Miller <[email protected]> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Simon Wears <[email protected]> > wrote: > > possibly. Unfortunately, she isn't running Ubuntu yet, but eventually > I'll > > get her to switch. I'm just waiting for Windows to kill itself (again) > then > > I can put Ubuntu on it for a week, and she can decide if she wants to > > switch. > > I've found that doing something like that is a poison chalice... > whereas if somebody has Windows they go to their mates for help, if > you give them Ubuntu or any other Linux they always assume you are on > call 24x7 to help them with the most mundane of problems, which (in > most cases) they could have worked out for themselves had they > bothered to move their brain out of first gear. > > Just be wary. It's always easier for somebody to call you for an > answer than to figure it out for themselves, or at least that seems to > be my experience, and I simply don't have the time to be a helpdesk as > well as a programmer. > > Sean > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Simon Wears [email protected] | http://MunkyJunky.com Manchester Metropolitan University Computing Student
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