Stop Microsoft

Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: xyle_one on 12 March 2003, 20:57

Title: add one more tick....
Post by: xyle_one on 12 March 2003, 20:57

....to the list of people saved.
last night a friend called, he bitched about his computer, mostly about windows. he said "Fuck Windows, give me Linux". so tonight, i am giving him a copy of mandrake 9 (or redhat8, but i think mandrake would be better for him). so hopefully it all goes smoothly. he isnt even a geek like me, he just wants a computer that works & cant afford a mac.

Title: add one more tick....
Post by: Siplus on 13 March 2003, 04:29

hmm...that reminds me. this weekend i have to install linux on two of my friends' laptops. they both are interesting in knowing more about computers, but one is just a moron...

Title: add one more tick....
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 13 March 2003, 04:47

Actually I've had some luck converting people lately as soon as I stopped blabbing about Mac all the time. One of my Windows zombie friends installed Mandrake but said it looked really bad and there were no programs for it. I told him to try Red Hat instead. Did I do the right thing? What do you guys recommend for former Windows people who like tons of compatable software? I hope this guy doesn't go back to the dark side because of this problem (I told him about gimp and mozilla, but what other alternatives are good to Microsoft programs?).