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Bug #1 (liberation)
Comment #298

Comment 298 for bug 1

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Allen Graham (allenggraham) wrote on 2007-03-19: Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

#298

John, you said it all !!
Thanks,
Allen

On 3/17/07, john <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I'm a complete newbie at this and I thought I would share some comments.
> I love anything Open and found out about Ubuntu when installing
> OpenOffice. Have been using Gmail and Firefox for years.
>
> I have never taken any computer courses in my life. However I'm the
> 'administrator' in the house and I'm in charge of my parents computer
> (which I switch to Mac because they could not figure out the XP
> interface). Scary? Very common....
>
> Made the CD image, which was easy.
> Tried to boot on the desktop: took me some googling to know how to access
> the BIOS set up (never had to do that with windows before), then found out
> the whole thing froze, did not know why, some more googling before I realize
> I don't have the Fat32 format (no idea how to switch over and definitely not
> interested in potentially screwing up my files doing so). Gave up on that
> machine,
>
> Went on an older machine my kids were using (the 9 year old thought it
> was the coolest thing since it's not MS and he heard something about
> Linux). Boot it no problem from the CD. Got Firefox going then realize
> all the sites the kids like require plug-ins to be installed (they were
> getting impatient at this point), then went on VMK.com and Shockwave is
> required, then realize it's not going to work with Linux. The kids
> walked out of the room....
>
> So I love the idea of open software, but for some reason I don't think
> Ubuntu is promoted right (OpenOffice either). You see Firefox
> everywhere, gets promoted everywhere and its virtues are well known to
> the general (non geek) public like myself.
>
> The installation and running needs to be a lot more intuitive ( I don't
> have any computer taught to me, it's always been intuitively pushing
> button to see what happens....). I definitely have no idea how to write
> a script. Sure I could have the option of buying a computer with Linux
> preinstalled but I'm not a computer geek per se and if I'm scared I'll
> be going back to either Mac or Windows and want something to work right
> out of the box.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> --
> Microsoft has a majority market share
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1
>

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>
http://adventures-with-the-rascals.blogspot.com/

John, you said it all !!
Thanks,
Allen

On 3/17/07, john <johnvuspam@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm a complete newbie at this and I thought I would share some comments.
> I love anything Open and found out about Ubuntu when installing
> OpenOffice. Have been using Gmail and Firefox for years.
>
> I have never taken any computer courses in my life. However I'm the
> 'administrator' in the house and I'm in charge of my parents computer
> (which I switch to Mac because they could not figure out the XP
> interface). Scary? Very common....
>
> Made the CD image, which was easy.
> Tried to boot on the desktop: took me some googling to know how to access
> the BIOS set up (never had to do that with windows before), then found out
> the whole thing froze, did not know why, some more googling before I realize
> I don't have the Fat32 format (no idea how to switch over and definitely not
> interested in potentially screwing up my files doing so). Gave up on that
> machine,
>
> Went on an older machine my kids were using (the 9 year old thought it
> was the coolest thing since it's not MS and he heard something about
> Linux). Boot it no problem from the CD. Got Firefox going then realize
> all the sites the kids like require plug-ins to be installed (they were
> getting impatient at this point), then went on VMK.com and Shockwave is
> required, then realize it's not going to work with Linux. The kids
> walked out of the room....
>
> So I love the idea of open software, but for some reason I don't think
> Ubuntu is promoted right (OpenOffice either). You see Firefox
> everywhere, gets promoted everywhere and its virtues are well known to
> the general (non geek) public like myself.
>
> The installation and running needs to be a lot more intuitive ( I don't
> have any computer taught to me, it's always been intuitively pushing
> button to see what happens....). I definitely have no idea how to write
> a script. Sure I could have the option of buying a computer with Linux
> preinstalled but I'm not a computer geek per se and if I'm scared I'll
> be going back to either Mac or Windows and want something to work right
> out of the box.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> --
> Microsoft has a majority market share
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1
>

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>
http://adventures-with-the-rascals.blogspot.com/