Can we discuss this on-wiki please? and ideally focus on hardware rather than software? ;-)
Thanks, Mike On 14 Jan 2012, at 23:44, Thomas Morton wrote: > To be honest; for a newbie Windows is absolutely fine and dandy. I have a W7 > install for gaming and other bits that goes just fine :) And Linux is still > too much for the vast majority of people. > > But from the chapters perspective you have to think about vulnerability; and > Windows is quite vulnerable. You don't want to have a laptop with malware > hanging around, and Windows attracts it too easily. > > If someone uses the laptop, enters their email acc details and subsequently > gets infiltrated that's more than embarrassing for us :) > > Which is why I recommend something like Chromebook - because it's very hard > to make it do anything else except web browsing. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
