Would you install and configure Ubuntu for someone you know... free of charge?

[ComplexNumber]

Would you install and configure Ubuntu for someone you know... free of charge?

yes, of course! i've already done so with ubuntu and other ditstros on numerous occasions. why would i want to charge for it?

[karellen]

yes, I already did this, for friends and for my girlfriend

[kevinf311]

Without hesitation--I'd even do it for someone I don't know

Although I would take out the without hesitation. I would probably profile the person and their hardware first to make sure it would be somewhat painless to install and configure. Also to make sure that the person would be receptive to another Operating System.

I've assisted a couple roommates in installing Ubuntu, but the initiative was mostly their own.

[tbroderick]

I'd do it for beer and/or dinner.

[MrCheese]

In light of a recent remark in another thread, I'm just curious.

This is for home users--not businesses. Though, if you'd do it for free for businesses (small, large, medium--please specify), too, please mention so in a reply.

Please try to pick the poll option that most closely reflects your situation. If it's close but doesn't match your situation exactly, just explain how it's off. If nothing is even remotely close to your situation, pick Other and then explain.

I'd do anything I could to show people there is a third way - I always advocate linux to anyone who will listen (and quite a few who won't).

[PartisanEntity]

I have installed Ubuntu for friends and family members and I would never charge them money. I also would help out colleagues and would not charge them money.

On a lighter side, installing Ubuntu and having it up and running usually takes about 20-30 mins if there aren't any serious issues to deal with, so it would really not be appropriate to charge people A coffee and biscuits would be more than enough...

[voided3]

I helped one of my friends get it up and running on his box before. Too bad I can't convince my family!

[plb]

People willing to install for free should also check out this thread..
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=411040

[Adamant1988]

My friends and family are all well aware of my Linux user but I make it a point not to push it on them unless they "need it" or "want it"

An example I've had of a friend NEEDING Linux was a couple months ago she managed to infect her system with some malware that totally wrecked it. Frantically searching for her Windows Restore CDs turned up nothing, and she called me crying. I went down with an Ubuntu disk and was able to get the system functioning, I set up Ubuntu for her so that she wouldn't need to mess with any of that and she was happy with it until the machine's death. She purchased a new machine and is now using Windows again, oh well.

In any case, I can't justify charging for installing any distribution of Linux on a system, although sometimes I feel like I should be charging for that AND support. As of right now, I've never charged anyone including strangers for the installation.

[MRiGnS]

Why should i charge someone for something this easy? If somebody asks gently i'll do it without hesitating.

i mean its not gentoo or something which takes much much longer to set up and configure but i probably would do that to.