I don't understand the attractionSmaug says: Ricky Gervais. Lesbian pr0n. Going into a crowded bar, purely because it's crowded. All these things seem to be popular with everybody else, but I just can't work out why. What leaves you cold just as much as it turns everyone else on?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 14:54)
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Switch the automatic updates off?Windows, unfortunatly, is built to cater for far to wide a variety of users. It has to work for both those who don't know what they're doing, and they have to cater for the professional, whilst sticking with a theme that is at least similar to previous versions so they don't alienate people. Linux is good - Ubuntu in particular - but it's still not completly there in terms of experiece for the novice. The choice is still Windows or MacOS for the person who doesn't want to get under the hood, and I know which I'd pick.
(, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 8:47, 1 reply)
Idisagree that Ubuntu (or Mint, or Xubuntu etc...) are not ready for the novice.
Give a complete novice a machine with say, Vista or OSX and one with Ubuntu (for instance) and I'd lay money that they'll be doing the things they want to do on the latter machine before either of the first two.
At xmas a friend got a new PC - it came with that dreadful excuse for an OS on it - the very same day the twunt was phoning me up to 'fix' his machine. It wasn't broken. He can't read and couldn't read the several hundred messages popping up all over the place.
I installed Ubuntu on his machine - never heard another word from him about it.
If an illiterate (computer and reading) can use it, but can't use windows, then I think it's safe to say it's ready for novices.
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