Couple of years ago my father came to me and he said - I am tired of using this Windows XP, do you think i should buy Vista? I answered that it would not run on his hardware, so he would need to get a new computer as well. Instead i recommended Ubuntu, saying i live nearby i come over when you need it. Also we can change XP back when needed.
So i sat down with him, put in the cd and made him install it himself. He asked me what to do on each page of the install, and i just said - do what you think is the correct and he managed to install Ubuntu all on himself. Luckily enough he had hardware that worked flawless out of the box. So since 8.04 he has been a regular Ubuntu user, calling me less often then from when he was using XP.
My mother on the other hand did not want to touch his computer with linux. I dont know that, she said, i barely even understand Windows she claimed.
Last christmas my dad bought her an eeepc with Windows 7 on it. Even though it was new it was hellish slow, could use a minute to open filebrowser and all the OEM software included in the installed just slowed it down. I said, we can format it and install Windows 7 again, but couldnt we just install Ubuntu instead and try it, and if you dont like it we go back to Windows 7.
Now my mother is one of these that before getting a laptop had used a computer 25 times, and those times on windows. So this was a challenge.
After install i went home and left for her to experience things abit on its own and one hour later she called "I had no idea my computer could be so fast, and this does not seem so difficult, its the same webbrowser! But its says i dont have flash what is that?"
So over the phone i got her to install flash. Easy as that she understood the concept of package manager.
That is for me proof that two 50+ people, one with dayly use of computers at work with outlook and one with no experience at all both prefer Ubuntu compared to windows. My father even say "i hate it during the days using windows xp at work"
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Couple of years ago my father came to me and he said - I am tired of using this Windows XP, do you think i should buy Vista? I answered that it would not run on his hardware, so he would need to get a new computer as well. Instead i recommended Ubuntu, saying i live nearby i come over when you need it. Also we can change XP back when needed. So i sat down with him, put in the cd and made him install it himself. He asked me what to do on each page of the install, and i just said - do what you think is the correct and he managed to install Ubuntu all on himself. Luckily enough he had hardware that worked flawless out of the box. So since 8.04 he has been a regular Ubuntu user, calling me less often then from when he was using XP. My mother on the other hand did not want to touch his computer with linux. I dont know that, she said, i barely even understand Windows she claimed. Last christmas my dad bought her an eeepc with Windows 7 on it. Even though it was new it was hellish slow, could use a minute to open filebrowser and all the OEM software included in the installed just slowed it down. I said, we can format it and install Windows 7 again, but couldnt we just install Ubuntu instead and try it, and if you dont like it we go back to Windows 7. Now my mother is one of these that before getting a laptop had used a computer 25 times, and those times on windows. So this was a challenge. After install i went home and left for her to experience things abit on its own and one hour later she called "I had no idea my computer could be so fast, and this does not seem so difficult, its the same webbrowser! But its says i dont have flash what is that?" So over the phone i got her to install flash. Easy as that she understood the concept of package manager. That is for me proof that two 50+ people, one with dayly use of computers at work with outlook and one with no experience at all both prefer Ubuntu compared to windows. My father even say "i hate it during the days using windows xp at work" my two cents