On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 23:31 +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: > Eventually I convinced the person whose machine I was setting up to > throw out Vista. > Does that person is a old Linux user, familiar with Linux, or just you convinced him for Linux because you love Linux. Have you considered his works and software need feasibility before transfering him. many people are there who uses certain software (and to a good skill) on Windows, but either that alternative or full-featured alternative is not available for Linux. You must consider those facts. Also, he paid for the Vista along with his PC. The philosophy is not to force and convince people for using Linux/Ubuntu. If a user can afford hefty sum for the Operating System, he can use that. Linux and FOSS started for free availablity of OS and software, and share the knowledge. There is really no agenda of forcing or convincing people by this mean.
> Off the topic, at the end of the day, I was unable to install ubuntu > on the machine either. So Ubuntu got a bad option in his view. Everyone knows Linux has many miles to go and we are advancing with better pace and successes. But again, not only the security and viruses are reasons which should be considered for migration. There are many others, which are more prominent that these options. > It was a new AMD dual core HP laptop with > broadcom wireless lan and nvidia graphics card. Ubuntu feisty fawn did > not install either with the regular i386 CD or with the alternate > CD. I had an edubuntu 6.06 CD at hand but that would not install > either. My friend came with AMD Dual, but Acer. I can successfully boot, but in commandline, XServer diddnt started. Why? Many devices were unknown to Ubuntu, e.g AGP, Network Interface(LAN), Wireless, Disk and PCI Controller Hub and many others. I was not installing Ubuntu, but booted to see the device Tags, so I can tell him what and where to download Drivers for Windows XP. Anyway, my personal experience is, when a person is really interested in moving to Ubuntu, help him. Guide a person with the option Ubuntu if he is in trouble, but also present the downside whatever be that. Be true, don't rush to convert people to Linux. -- Ravi Shanker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
