On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Simon Wears <munkyju...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Usually I am wary of tempting people to switch, but since it's my mum I know > Ubuntu will do exactly what she needs without any hiccups (well, non I can > think of) since all she does is type up work things, and check her emails / > look for holidays online. And I have to do all the technical work at home > anyway, her switching would just mean I can actually say 'just type this and > hit enter' rather than try remember how to do everything on Windows.
True!! Anybody else find the rabid desire to be different from Apple to be distinctly disconcerting?? Having grown up in a Unix/VT220 environment to find that there is no ctrl key and everything is done differently is, to say the least, rather "alien". I mean, ctrl-c to cancel... been there since time and memorium... how come Steve Jobs gets to redefine it? Means that when folks ask me about switching to Macs, which people seem to increasingly do, I am rather jaded. I accept their positives but I also am befuddled as to why they seem to have created for their converts such a steep learning curve, forcing them to throw out everything they are used to and buy into a completely different regime. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
