Promoting Linux before release of vista

[Rick Tomaschuk]

I work to put my money where my mouth is. I've been conducting 99% of my
business on Novell Linux Desktop for the last year or more (partially
prior). When ever I have visitors I casually ask what their regular
computer uses are both at home and work and offer them to use my desktop
(866AMD 1GbRAM) to perform various tasks including accessing MSN,
company apps via browser, office apps. The response is always "hey, this
is easier to read" than that other window$ software or "I didn't know
this existed". My pet peeve is the lack of support for all video formats
hence 99%.
RickT
http://www.TorontoNUI.ca


On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 15:06 +0000, Paul Sutton wrote:
> William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> 
> >I think the selling point is this:
> >
> >With Linux, you never have to reboot in the middle of doing something
> >because your computer slowed down.
> >
> >also...
> >
> >With Linux, if it ran fast last month, it runs fast now.
> >  
> >
> 
> I assume your talking about Windows,  I have the same problem with a 1.6 
> ghz amd duron and 1ghz ram,  so it's not just me.  Linux on the other 
> hand runs smoothly, fast.  I am also using kingston memory, so i guess 
> again thats high quality ram.
> 
> >I use a P4 3Ghz machine with a Gb of high-quality RAM at work, and it
> >does *not one thing* quickly.  I can't look at menus fast, I can't get a
> >right-click fast, and if I pass the mouse over the "Recent Documents"
> >submenu the whole machine locks for five seconds.  Windoze is for the
> >very, very patient, and that doesn't describe many people.
> >  
> >
> 
> 

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