[CoLoCo] Windows Is A PC Myth

[Andrew]

Yeah. I had heard there was a wierd tv channel, where the
advertisement we all community made, and whoever made them got paid.
I'll try and find the info about it, because i think it'd be cool to
make an ubuntu ad, and get paid for it.




On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Michael TheZorch Haney
<thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
>> The apple TV commercials don't help either. Although I find them
>> hilarious, they add to the confusion. A friend of mine (mac user who
>> has never owned a pc in his life) always talks about why he hates
>> PC's. I am currently trying to break that habit, so he will refer to
>> why he hates windows (or microsoft). He is very very S-L-O-W-L-Y
>> becoming aware of linux.
> My friend who has the two Apple laptops was a long time Windows user and
> like me a IT support veteran, and software developer.  What prompted him
> to switch from Windows to Mac actually was Windows Activation.  When
> trying to reinstall WinXP to his desktop PC he was unable to activate it
> online, the server rejected his code.  He can to call an 900#, enter in
> a string of numbers he had on screen, which wasn't easy for him due the
> fact that he and I both have poor vision, and had to enter in a string
> of numbers which the automated system gave him in order to activate his
> "legal" copy of WinXP Pro.  It really pissed him off something royally.
> The next day he bought the MacBook Pro and has barely touched his custom
> built $5,000 gaming rig since then.  He does plan to get it up and
> running again but refuses to touch Vista.  He's a die-hard Apple User
> now.  He is messing around with the idea of using the Linux From Scratch
> distro to build his own version of Linux for his personal use.  He's
> seen Ubuntu, was impressed by it, but was put off by me having to
> research how to enable commercial DVD and MP3 playback.  His quote is
> "If it was hard for you, a IT professional, to find and implement these
> features how the hell do you expect the average Mon & Pop user to do
> it?"  He went on to say that from what he could see Ubuntu was well
> rounded, but the basic features which are most appealing to home users
> aren't there and until that is addressed in some serious way it will
> never become mainstream.  But, I'm reiterating the point I made with my
> original email.
>
> What Ubuntu needs are TV ads which educate people on what Ubuntu is all
> about.
>
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