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106 Install-Fests At Once
TrixX writes "Yesterday, a free software install-fest happened in 106 cities in 13 Latin American Countries, in a coordinated event called FLISOL (Latinamerican Free Software Install Fest). This event was coordinated by about 40 user groups. In most places, different distributions of GNU/Linux were installed, and also Free software for Windows (like OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox). At the time there is a partial count of about 1000 assistants and hundreds of computers installed, and the count is not complete yet." We mentioned this event a few weeks back; now that it's happened, I'd like to read accounts from some of the participants about their impressions of the events.
Crap... and what about actually stopping the perpetual Windows installfest we're having at work?
Fortunately, I'm a programmer/sysadmin and I don't even touch user support. The support guys, though, get 897984789798 calls that "your program stopped working, fix it" from customers per day. And in basically all cases, it's some random Windows machine crappied beyond all recognition.
The day all those small businesses around start getting it that, indeed, there are better, cheaper alternatives other than Windows, and we're not simply preaching some scam to get more money, I'll be a really happy camper.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.