Spreading the Word During the Holiday Season
Don and/or Mila Trombley
donmila at shaw.ca
Thu Dec 28 18:22:28 UTC 2006
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? ;=)
> --
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> he made
> school boards."
> -Mark Twain
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