brentoboy
October 1st, 2005, 07:06 PM
If you are like me, every time somebody's windows box has issues (which happens all the time) they call me and ask how to fix it. Sometimes, I tell them to bring it over and just leave it at my place and I'll kick it into gear. (saves me time and them frustration.)
My new strategy is to talk them into migrating to ubuntu - expecially if their PC is bursting at the seams with windows crap. All they want is a browser anyway. I get it up and running, and then I advise them not to do anything that requires the password without asking me about what it is going to do. - happy sailing
I just need a handful of official ubuntu CDs to give them after I install it - so they feel like they have a lifeline (like they need it anyway). The "official" cd helps becuase they feel like it was made by a real person - not just me in my basement. And I tell them that the stuff they are using really is free (not just pirated) People prefer to live within the law - so long as it doenst cost them a few thousand dollars just to have office software and desktop publishing and image editing software.
They need to be warned. And they need to be given the 20 mintute introduction to the important apps. But, after that, smooth sailing.
Ubuntu is the first desktop I have been comfortable passing out that wont come back to me more often than windows already does.
give it away, giv'it away, giv'it away now!
My new strategy is to talk them into migrating to ubuntu - expecially if their PC is bursting at the seams with windows crap. All they want is a browser anyway. I get it up and running, and then I advise them not to do anything that requires the password without asking me about what it is going to do. - happy sailing
I just need a handful of official ubuntu CDs to give them after I install it - so they feel like they have a lifeline (like they need it anyway). The "official" cd helps becuase they feel like it was made by a real person - not just me in my basement. And I tell them that the stuff they are using really is free (not just pirated) People prefer to live within the law - so long as it doenst cost them a few thousand dollars just to have office software and desktop publishing and image editing software.
They need to be warned. And they need to be given the 20 mintute introduction to the important apps. But, after that, smooth sailing.
Ubuntu is the first desktop I have been comfortable passing out that wont come back to me more often than windows already does.
give it away, giv'it away, giv'it away now!