Hello Kylde,
On Saturday 08 July 2006 13:04, Kylde Inscribed Thus:
> my customer base is low-scale domestic, and how do you think MY
> average Joe is gonna respond when I say "you really should cough up
> £100 for xp, your dusty old win-98 OS isn't supported any more", when
> a: their machines are £50 p3 450's with 4mb vram, 64-128mb ram, and
> b: they only use them to play solitaire and send aol mails :) My
> income from cleaning PC's (ie removing malware of any kind) has
> overtaken my income from repairs (I'm still poor somehow, though
> <g>).
That is exactly how I felt when XP came out !!
You would be surprised how receptive your customers can be !
Grab a distribution that you like ! Spend some time playing with it,
not comparing it with Wins. Sell your time and skill installing,
maintaining and supporting it ! Give away some live CD's !!!
Make it work for you !
> Linux is simply too complex for my level of customer, even
> at the price (free). Vista's gonna be a big flat dud around here,
> probably even *I* won't bother with it for it's 1st 2 years
If your customers can click on an icon in Wins they can click on an icon
in Linux. Play the M$ game, but promote Linux to your customer
instead !
> Gaffer wrote on 08/07/2006, 12:58:
> > I have not sold or supplied a new machine with Wins on it for
> > eight or nine months now !! On average, for this financial year
> > we have supplied 3.8 machines a week. Not one XP box !!!
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Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
plug at play-net.co.uk
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