On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:20:12 +0100 Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk allegedly wrote:
On 10 May 2013 10:31, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
That said, he'll still be exposed to Linux as it's on other computers in the house.
My wife won't use Linux; and it has to be Excel because that's what she's using on the accountancy course that she's on.
My experience with my kids (now aged 22 and 26) showed a strict gender divide as they were growing up. My son refused point blank to use anything other than windows on the grounds that all the games he and his mates wanted were on that platform, whilst my daughter moaned only very slightly when I gave her a new laptop running linux (I forget the exact distro now). My daughter (and her husband) now only use linux because that is all I will support. My son ignores me.....
My wife uses linux all the time and only occasionally moans at me when she finds that some damned silly website used by the office expects, nay insists, on IE. Somehow this is /my/ fault.
I had been completely MS free for many years until I bought a Garmin SatNav with "free for life map updates". It turned out that those map updates could only be obtained if you ran windows or OSX. Bloody silly since the Garmin device itself runs an embedded version of linux. I swallowed hard and bought a crappy old MS box off ebay for £20, just so that I could get my map updates. Garmin also got a snottagram from me.
Mick
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