speedingbullet
June 10th, 2007, 12:47 PM
Before summer I was thinking of trying to buy old - semi new computers (with 1998 being the manufactured cut off date. Since windows 98, ME, and 2000 are old, still costly, and unreliable (although windows 98 is good), I was going to install Xubuntu over them, and sell them back along with any other upgrades.
When i told my friend this, he wasn't too impressed. He pointed out to me that people would get angry at me because Xubuntu was confusing and different from windows.
part of the conversation was like this:
Friend: Alright, Ill play the role of a person who is using the xubuntu thing.
Friend: ALRIGHT, NOW I WANNA PLAY A F****** GAME! WERE THE F*** ARE THEY!
Me: I doubt most computer users act like rednecks when they're at a computer.....
Friend: You'd be surprised about how many people do.
Me: well still, the games aren't that hard to find. *shows him*
Friend: They're not going to know that....
Me: So I'll make a manual and make copies of it to whoever buys a computer from me.
Friend: They're not going to want to read all that.
Friend: You see, Microsoft knows their customers, and the made windows easy for stupid people like me.
Although my friend is kind of uneducated in this area, he still made some good points, and I'm almost not willing for my customers to choose windows to be installed on the computers I sell to them because windows XP would just bog older computers down, and windows vista wont even run on most older computers.
So how would I actually be able to grab an average joe's interest in my computers when I'll only have Linux running on them?
When i told my friend this, he wasn't too impressed. He pointed out to me that people would get angry at me because Xubuntu was confusing and different from windows.
part of the conversation was like this:
Friend: Alright, Ill play the role of a person who is using the xubuntu thing.
Friend: ALRIGHT, NOW I WANNA PLAY A F****** GAME! WERE THE F*** ARE THEY!
Me: I doubt most computer users act like rednecks when they're at a computer.....
Friend: You'd be surprised about how many people do.
Me: well still, the games aren't that hard to find. *shows him*
Friend: They're not going to know that....
Me: So I'll make a manual and make copies of it to whoever buys a computer from me.
Friend: They're not going to want to read all that.
Friend: You see, Microsoft knows their customers, and the made windows easy for stupid people like me.
Although my friend is kind of uneducated in this area, he still made some good points, and I'm almost not willing for my customers to choose windows to be installed on the computers I sell to them because windows XP would just bog older computers down, and windows vista wont even run on most older computers.
So how would I actually be able to grab an average joe's interest in my computers when I'll only have Linux running on them?