<div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> 3. Knowledge & support in NTR is currently   inconsistent.   My time there has shown that while that   may be true, willingness and desire is there.</blockquote><div>(bolding by me) I don't know that I agree with this.  DISCLAIMER:  I only went once or twice, so perhaps my judgment was hasty. The reason that I was driven away from this while project was because I felt like there was a pretty heavy resistance to *any* change...including offering help for their Windows stuff.  The reason this resistance was such a deterrent for me was because the reason seemed to be based on inertia, and not a technical roadblock. Here's what goes through my head when reading this list: Issue 1:  Why is this needed?  What are these customers going to do, buy a $70 machine, and then go to Best Buy to purchase Duke Nukem Forever?  What kind of Windows-only stuff could they possibly need?  The purpose of these machines are to educate and empower the community.  I can't possibly think of a reason why not being able to run Windows-based software would impede this. Issue 2:  The targeted audience's ability to access technical assistance with *anything* is probably pretty limited.  Being underprivileged (or non-profit in the case of the companies that receive machines from NTR) makes it extremely difficult to access live help, even when it's free.  Without the internet, the only really good source that most of these people have is NTR, not only due to their technical ability but also due to their physical location.  Issue 3:  This is the only truly legit reason that I've seen so far.  I can't disagree with it. Issue 4:  Correct me if I'm wrong, but no one's advocating that NTR release ONLY Ubuntu, but rather to make it an option.  If it has a Winmodem, then install Windows on it. </div> So, to sum it up, I think that 3 out of the 4 reasons are, at least somewhat, "just there".  I think that the real reason is a combination of Issue 3 and the thought that "what we do works, so we don't need to fix it". I think the real issue lies within the fact that they're uncomfortable with any change, not in a technical debate. </div>