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Comment Re:Goodbye Windows (Score 1) 313

People here really need to remember that the vast majority of computer users don't really know or care care whether they're running Microsoft Windows or Microsoft XBox 360 as long as it does what they want.

Your right. I've installed Linuxmint on many family and friends computers over the last few years because I convinced them it would do what they want. Browse the web. Listen to music. View photos. Send email.
Part of the deal was a higher level of (free!) support from me with the Linux install. Windows installs only come with save documents and reinstall support (still free !).
Often I've setup dual boots for the unconvinced or gamers but encouraged them to give Linux a good go. In almost all cases Linux has become the preferred OS and I been asked to delete the windows partition to free up drive space. Apart from games most windows software works under wine, games are far more hardware dependant for success.
I've been using Linux personally since about 1996-97 (I remember that kde was first released soon after my first install) and it used to require some effort. Now it just works most off the time.

Comment Re:Goodbye Windows (Score 1) 313

But, I don't stay just for the games. I stay because using GNU/Linux means the largest selection of open source software available in the universe. For me GNU/Linux is stable and reliable and Window is still like an aborted fetus on the Metro interface.

Fixed that for you.

Comment Not just in the wilderness (Score 1) 599

Girl of four died in sat-nav error crash in Blackrod

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12360687/

Too many people blindly follow these things. There's a ford a few miles from me that is impassable for much of the year if not in a Land Rover etc. After heavy rain only a big tractor could make it.
Yet every year the fire service pulls out 6 - 10 cars whose drivers followed their Sat Navs instructions to pass through it. There is a easily visible water depth gauge.

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