Spreading the Word During the Holiday Season

[Don and/or Mila Trombley]

Mathieu Avoine wrote:
> Or do like me, dual-boot and keep your XP to do stuff Linux can't do 
> right now. It's like keeping your comfy blanket close to you in case 
> you need it. Also, it's super easy to do since the installer 
> automagically recognizes your winxp and offers you to setup the dual 
> boot for you. Linux is sweeeeeet. However, you winxp must be installed 
> first, because if you install windows after installing linux, well, 
> windows is not so sweet ;)
>
> Personally, I use Ubuntu 95% of the time. I use XP to play games 
> because playing games on linux is still way too much time consuming 
> for me. Tweaking and hacking is not my favorite sport yet, I just want 
> it to work. When it gets better support I will switch completely. 
> Also, right now my Open Office is broken (won't start) so I have to 
> log on to XP to update my accounting spreadsheets (no worries 
> everyone, I use Open Office for Windows too!!).
>
> Anyways, cheers and welcome Darren!
>
> Math
>
> On 12/27/06, *Andrew Hunter* <andy.hunter at rogers.com 
> <mailto:andy.hunter at rogers.com> > wrote:
>
>     On Wednesday 27 December 2006 20:35, Darren Zawislak wrote:
>     > Tee Jay Rosene wrote:
>     > > I hope everyone here on Ubuntu Canada has enjoyed the Holiday
>     Season.
>     > > Such a
>     > > season is a great opportunity to spread the word about Ubuntu
>     amongst
>     > > family
>     > > and friends, and I was just wondering if anyone has done any
>     of this over
>     > > the holiday season, and how successful this has been?
>     >
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > New Ubuntu user here. Just partitioned my hard drive and loaded the
>     > software today. Nice.
>     >
>     > A friend told me about Ubuntu at a Christmas party after I was
>     > expressing concerns about what I was reading about Vista. I am not a
>     > programmer, network specialist, etc. Just a very good Windows/Office
>     > user who builds computers on the side.  So this will be a
>     interesting
>     > experiment. It is very hard to turn away from my stable XP Pro
>     > environment.
>
>     I can understand that.
>
>     My sugestion is try a native ubuntu installation with a spare
>     machine. That
>     way, there is nothing to worry about.
>
>     > Decisions about which software to view and archive my
>     > numerous e-mail accounts, etc, are all up in the air. I guess it
>     is like
>     > giving up a security blanket. Wait a minute, did I mention
>     security and
>     > Windows in the same sentence?  Oops, sorry!
>     >
>     > --
>     > There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand
>     binary, and
>     > those who don't. Duh.
>     Er, I don't, um, unnerstan' wut bianaarey iz.....sum'tin tuh duh
>     wid Stars in Hollywood?  ;=)
>     --
>     "First, God created idiots. But that was just for practise, then
>     he made
>     school boards."
>        -Mark Twain
>
>
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