[ubuntu-uk] Desktop or Server?

[etali]

Alan Bell wrote:
>  When the full desktop is running it will use
> extra resources but that is fine. If I am giving a customer their first
> Ubuntu server for them to mostly leave well alone I would put the
> desktop on it, with Compiz and all the eye candy turned on! I want them
> to see that on the rare occasion that they actually log on they have a
> better desktop operating system than the Windows XP machine on their desk.
>
>   

That's an interseting idea!  Does it work?  Do many people express an 
interest in converting?

I have a computer like that in the kitchen (all the eye candy, Atlantis, 
etc) - I use it as a testing server, and the eye candy is just to joke 
around with friends - for example writing spooky messages on the screen 
in fire writing to greet them when they come to visit, and setting it up 
as a snow globe over Christmas.

My friends think it's cool, but they haven't been motivated to install 
it themselves yet.