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Re: Target-market.

 

On 28/12/10 14:41, Barry Drake wrote:
My solution to that is to buy a hard drive (small by todays standards)
and pop that in.  I give them the old one: "Keep it carefully; it will
only take me five minutes to put it back and you'll be back to exactly
where you are now".  After a respectable wait, I can put the old hard
drive back as extra storage, and re-format it!
Yes indeed, I did consider that,  however, the user is typically still 
locked into some Windows stuff. In one case the change form OE to 
thunderbird has yet to occur, but is seriously planned, in another 
case Windows games are the hook, although this is loosening with time. 
In three recent cases the machines have been laptops, where a second 
drive is  possible in ways, but less convenient. I think that many 
people are very beset with still being able to access the supposed 
magic in the Wonderful Windows with all of its secrets and mysterious 
grottos and caverns, and the distant promise of streets of gold, 
somewhere.......
Interestingly the OE to Thunderbird laptop owner has a different 
friend at both shoulders. Me on one side saying Ubuntu is less 
confusing than Windows. And another close friend who is saying  'Don't 
touch Linux with a barge pole!'
Nice that Ubuntu seems to be winning in this one!
--
alan cocks
Ubuntu user



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