Switching My Dad to Linux--Part One
A few days ago my father got a new laptop that had Vista pre-installed. He asked me to set things up for him and, to cut a long story short, he got Ubuntu 9.04. This is simply because Ubuntu is a better choice in this situation.
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A completely biased article again. First if you were my kid and you did this, you would probably be picking yourself up off the side walk. Secondly I did not have any issues finding anything on a Vista machine. Third you complain about the UAC, but you leave out the part where in order to install something in Linuxh you have to su to root. Four, any and all operating systems have issues this includes your beloved Linux. Shall I list the issues of Linux? If you want to be a tech be a tech. Open that closed up mind and look at things from all sides.Biased?
You call this article biased? You're the one who's biased. I have used XP, Vista, and Fedora, and I agree with the author.biased
yep. i agree with mburton325.*and* author is tho, tho, tho "cool" by using the words "software ecosystem"...gotta love those "cool" buzz words