adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
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I am not necessarily a GNUWinII fan, just I advocate handing it out to people who don't want to install Linux (because quite frankly installing Linux and getting it to work with all of your hardware can be a pain, and I don't think its an option to say to interested people "hey, yeah Linux is really cool. oh btw you need to buy a new graphics card and a supported webcam because that one is no good and you then need to apply these patches that you can find on the internet to get that digital camera working" most people will look at you and say "but it works in windows now and if Linux is "better" why won't it work?"
I get this all the time, which is why I mainly "do" Linux on servers. For the back-end stuff, as a workhorse, it's hard to beat...
Cheers, Laurie.