Selling Linux to Windows Users

[Knapp]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Albert Charron
<albert at albertcharron.name> wrote:
> IMPORTANT: This post has inline answers...
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> Knapp wrote:
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>> 1 Relax knowing that it will not crash.
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> My current Windows installation crashes less than my ubuntu one

If ubuntu is crashing you must have something setup wrong. Mine never
crashes. I have had FF crash but that is not the system. I just
restart FF and it opens up the same pages and keeps working.

>> 2 Have multiple desktops
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> With dual monitors, I have no use of multiple desktops... They sit there for
> nothing

Having power and not using it is of course your choice.


>> 3 Rotating cube desktop with cool effects.
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> I hate the rotating cube... It's a resource hog, even with my new
> computer... And it crashes...

I bet, what good would it be if you don't use multi-desktops?

>> 10 Make my laptop play music on my desktop with the wireless, note
>> that the program is running on the laptop.
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> What's the point of doing that? If I'm on my laptop and want to listen
> music, it's not at my desktop I want it to play...

My expensive house sterio gets it's input from the desktop computer.
The laptop is very old and sound bad.

>> 15 Does Apatchy run on windows?
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> If you meant Apache, yes, it runs... I even serve PHP pages from my
> desktop... You can run Perl too!

I have a sort of dyslexia, sorry I can't spell.

>> 16 Run software that I have deleted. Bet you can't do that on windows. LOL
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> If I delete a software, I don't want to run it! Again, what's the point?
> I've never tried that on Linux either!

That is how you change software but keep said software running as you do it.

>> 18 How about my cool icon that turns the DVD player to speed one using
>> Bash?
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> Honestly, I really don't know what you're talking about here...

Not to surprising, I made it. It is an icon on the desktop. You click
it and it runs a bash script that makes the DVD player run at 1x
instead of 16x thus being quiet.

$ cat /home/douglas/bin/slowcd.sh
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/setcd -x 1 /dev/dvd

>> OK, I have not used MS for many years. What can you kill from my list?

> I use Ubuntu server on my home server and on a couple of servers at work,
> and I use Windows on some other servers to fill some business needs... I
> like both OSes... Both have their strengths and their weaknesses. When I
> build computers for friends, I present both options and it's up to them to
> choose if I install Ubuntu or if they install Windows...

Do they have to pay for Windows and not for Ubuntu?



-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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