[ubuntu-uk] Sad but true? From the Register

[Sean Miller]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Yishay Mor <yishaym at gmail.com> wrote:
> No WKOW, something else stopped her. But that's no excuse, computers should
> work for dumb people too, and everyone deserves to know what they're buying.
> It doesn't matter that we all know that FF is better than IE, for some
> people internet=IE, and office=M$. Dell need to explain the concept of
> compatible slowly, probably using shorter words.

I was about to say something similar.

She clearly didn't know she was buying a Ubuntu machine and wanted
Windows... when Dell support got her call they shouldn't have tried to
evangelise, they should have sorted it so that she had what she'd
expected.

In my experience a lot of so-called "Linux evangelists" do the
operating system more harm than good.  Especially when they try to
persuade people that Windows is bad and Linux is good, and that if
they stick with Windows they're somehow showing a lack of
intelligence.

There's a man in Glastonbury who does just that, and he's put more
people off Linux than he's tuned into it.

Sean