[ubuntu-us-mn] NPR Interview

[Richard Laager]

On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 01:37 -0500, Tony Yarusso wrote:
> Now this is just plain cool!  :)
> http://tonyyarusso.com/floss/interviewed-npr

Excellent indeed!

On a related side note:

I am a bit frustrated by the people who took that blog post as Truth.
Obviously, that's an example of one person trying a new OS. As comments
there state, she'd like have had the same problems going to OS X. I know
a lot of people who had large issues going to Vista.

It's unfortunate that switching to Vista is something forced upon users,
so they grumble but accept it, but they expect that switching to Ubuntu
will take zero re-learning time.

A couple years ago, I setup Xubuntu for a friend of my girlfriend. She
had an ancient computer that she wanted to use for typing reports, IM,
etc. I installed it, mapped the college's network printer, showed her
where to click for the word processor, the browser, and the IM client,
and she loved it. (She did eventually get a new laptop, I believe.)

I should really re-run that experiment with my girlfriend (who has used
OS X for years) on XP SP3 (when it's out), Vista, and Ubuntu 8.04, if
she'd be game.

Richard
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