Comment 1480 for bug 1

One of my clients has a dual-boot system so that WHEN Windows goes wrong he can
still use the machine but he is reluctant to use Ubuntu and keeps making
increasingly small excuses for not trying it. The latest was the nautilus
file-browser displays things as icon (queue long rant). Before he had finished
ranting i had changed the default.

He has an ancient hand-held which used to need some proprietary software to
synch with the machine. Ubuntu has something better (covers more machines) free
but he can't get a copy of the software he used in Xp.

The only blocker now is the few minutes/hours he would need to set-up the UserID
on the hand-held and in JPilot to allow them to synch. He is happier with the
idea of spending days or even weeks trying to get another copy of the old
proprietary software which will still need him to spend a few minutes/hours
sorting the UserID on both the hand-held and in the software.

When people feel that many days and hours sorting a Windows problem is fine but
spending a few minutes on a Linux problem is unbearable it is difficult and
frustrating for us. In Windows everything "just works" is a lie but one that is
believed by people even as they spend many hours trying to fix a flaky Windows
system.
Regards from
Tom :)