Great responses! Thanks everyone. I think it comes down to some people view their computer as a tool, and some people as a hobby. My Dad is certainly in the former and doesn't care what OS he is using as long as it does the stuff he wants. I'm sure that Ubuntu would do the stuff he wants, albeit in a different way, but he has learnt that way now, and doesn't want to invest time in learning a different way.
<br><br>I posted here because I know some of you are very enthusiastic about getting people to switch to Ubuntu, and I found it interesting that my Dad wanted XP back because Vista was too different. I'm sure if he had started on Ubuntu, he wouldn't switch to Windows (or Mac). He wasn't even seduced by my nice 20" iMac. Horses for courses... :-)
<br><br>Mark.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 21, 2007 5:18 PM, norman <<a href="mailto:norman@littletank.org">norman@littletank.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> > 70+ was because I know very few people older than 70 who will go near a computer, and that is past normal retirement age (~65)<br>> ><br>> ><br>> I help a neighbour who is 80 - and there will be more of them soon :-)
<br>><br>> For the other categories 20 years is an enormous jump in age but I<br>> accept you can't change it easily.<br>><br>> Still it's a bit of fun - it was nice of you to do it<br><br></div>Agreed, it is a bit of fun with a little, serious edge to it. My brother
<br>is a regular user and still does a bit of programming (approaching 73<br>years). I've given up programming but still enjoy pottering around with<br>both software and hardware (approaching 80 years).<br><font color="#888888">
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