I'm from Tamilnadu, India. I think this Rs. 7000 offer may not have been for XP alone. Most computers sold in this state are not branded but assembled by small vendors. I think its possible to get a decent PC for around Rs. 15000 even from popular brands like HCL. So Rs. 7000 for XP sounds ludicrous. Maybe it was for xp/office/support. But then it beats me why an Indian enterprise would need Microsoft support when they can easily get the best in-house service by employing few techies for some Rs. 7000 a month!
To clarify, I avoid Windows/OSX on principle and am satisfied with what Linux offers me.
I'm not sure whether Ubuntu is the best distro out there. I moved from Fedora to Ubuntu a year back because of the ease of installation and more importantly space constraint! Things like network, hibernate etc worked by default on my Thinkpad unlike Fedora. (maybe Fedora has fixed all that now!)
But Ubuntu has disappointed me for the following reasons:
1. In the last few months my nautilus has crashed many times. Firefox 2.0 reminds me of the old IE days crashing almost everyday.
2. My ubuntu consumes as much space as fedora used to do.
3. I might be silly but I would like a plain 'easy on the eye' desktop which works. Cant find one such desktop theme! Ubuntu apparently is now obsessed with the glossy looks which I don't want anyway and is sacrificing stability.
4. Automatix is cool but why can't Synaptic get me the same job done?
5. Edgy has been a huge disappointment! If people are ready to skip a version altogether, then its apparent people at Canonical are not doing a good job recently.
In summary, Ubuntu impressed me with the installation and failed after that!
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I'm from Tamilnadu, India. I think this Rs. 7000 offer may not have been for XP alone. Most computers sold in this state are not branded but assembled by small vendors. I think its possible to get a decent PC for around Rs. 15000 even from popular brands like HCL. So Rs. 7000 for XP sounds ludicrous. Maybe it was for xp/office/support. But then it beats me why an Indian enterprise would need Microsoft support when they can easily get the best in-house service by employing few techies for some Rs. 7000 a month!
good point about the dependencies. i once removed gnome by mistake while trying to uninstall unwanted stuff!
To clarify, I avoid Windows/OSX on principle and am satisfied with what Linux offers me.
I'm not sure whether Ubuntu is the best distro out there. I moved from Fedora to Ubuntu a year back because of the ease of installation and more importantly space constraint! Things like network, hibernate etc worked by default on my Thinkpad unlike Fedora. (maybe Fedora has fixed all that now!)
But Ubuntu has disappointed me for the following reasons:
1. In the last few months my nautilus has crashed many times. Firefox 2.0 reminds me of the old IE days crashing almost everyday.
2. My ubuntu consumes as much space as fedora used to do.
3. I might be silly but I would like a plain 'easy on the eye' desktop which works. Cant find one such desktop theme! Ubuntu apparently is now obsessed with the glossy looks which I don't want anyway and is sacrificing stability.
4. Automatix is cool but why can't Synaptic get me the same job done?
5. Edgy has been a huge disappointment! If people are ready to skip a version altogether, then its apparent people at Canonical are not doing a good job recently.
In summary, Ubuntu impressed me with the installation and failed after that!