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on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:30PM
from the no-need-to-join-the-microsoft-collective dept.
from the no-need-to-join-the-microsoft-collective dept.
resignator writes:
"'Arm yourself with the information needed before telling someone to install such and such distro because it's great,' warned blogger Ken Starks in his recent FOSS Force post. 'It might be great for you, but maybe not so much with my hardware choices.'
What considerations do SoylentNews readers have when recommending an OS? What OS do you recommend the most or least? How far would you go to 'tailor' a Linux distro to a potential adopter before recommending something that will work out of the box but lack non-essential features?"
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by jt on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:51PM
Generally the people I know who would consider switching OS are the kind of people who would not be asking friends for recommendations. That said, I've had some success in getting some family members to dual-boot their much-loved Windows for 'normal stuff' and some Linux-based OS for banking and other sensitive stuff. For this usage pattern the main factor I need to consider is how easy it will be to keep it patched with little manual intervention.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday March 05 2014, @08:14PM
The best way I know to convert people is to tell them that, running Linux, they can watch all the porn they want without having to reinstall Windows because Linux doesn't get malware and viruses. It doesn't matter that I am technically lying, because these types of people don't understand things like BASH shells and file permissions and so have never borked their Linux in poking around. They see that Linux not only runs orders of magnitude faster than even Windows XP (due to all the virus scanners and other shitware bogging down the system under XP) but with one quick configuration of Compiz-fusion can run faster and flashier than Pixar's wildest dreams.
With this newfound power, my friends were then equipped to go to the nearest hipster-inhabited coffee-shops and up to the nearest Mac users, showing their own 4 year-old and semen-crusted Dells or Toshibas, with 3-D Cube 3-D Windows Fire Mosaic Paperairplane Whoa FUCK blazing. With the awestruck Mac user's jaw still dropped and speechless, my friends would then say, "This laptop cost me 300 bucks," before walking out with a strut.