Orwell wrote:
Show them Ubuntu.
That's the distro I was trying to show them but they freaked out. My mother, in particular, is semi-literate with computers, but has been using windoze since at least 3.1 (back when it was a good non-bloated OS), and most of the other people have gotten accustomed to windoze since about 2000 or so with their workplace.
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Honestly, the majority of the people I've met with Vista pre-loaded on their computer got loads of problems with it, often to the point of their machine simply not even booting up. It's crap.
Believe me, I know. Like I said earlier, I can't even get it to install (though the disk loaded up on my laptop, so it's most likely something with my motherboard Vista doesn't like...)
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XP is probably better, but I've yet to run that one natively.
I've been able to, but I don't want to run through my one license of XP, only to not be able to get another one... I need to keep XP for myself, after all... at least until windoze 7 comes out... I've heard that msft is starting to ramp up development on that because of the hatred of Vista, kind of like what they did on XP when ME failed miserably...
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Linux is the way to go, or, if that's too scary for some reason (Ubuntu seems easier on n00bs than Windows...)
Only if someone is a complete noob and doesn't have any pre-existing small amount of computer literacy...
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there's always Mac.
Not touching Apple with a 10-foot pole. I'm not a big fan of the "we know what's good for you" smarminess their corporate policy contains... it reminds me too much of my parents when I was little...
Even if I would be willing to use it, I don't have the kind of money to get a mac anyway. Most of my machines, aside from my thinkpad T60 and my custom-build gaming machine (which the parts cost about $500) are old Pentium 3 machines that the church I work at was going to throw away.