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Re: [LUG] Daughter's computer

 


On 06/12/2019 16:41, mr meowski wrote:
> On 06/12/2019 12:33, Jon Davey via list wrote:
> 
>> I have a friend who lent his laptop to someone in order to upgrade it
>> to Windows 10 but the guy gave it back to him with a Linux on it. He
>> wanted to know the best way to get Windoes 10 but I told him to give
>> the Linux a try ! If he takes to it I will be reccomending the list to
>> him too. I hope ha does.
> 
> I appreciate that this is probably a friend playing a bit of a prank on 
> another friend but all the same, I'd be pretty cross if someone did this 
> to me and I didn't have the skills to sort it out easily myself - which 
> apparently he doesn't. If it was my only/main computing device I'd not 
> just be cross, but raging :/
> 
> Microsoft Office, iTunes, Photoshop and Fortnite are just the tip of the 
> iceberg for stuff that is impossible to run on Linux without a full fat 
> VM (wine can't handle any of them) and your average 2019 consumer wants 
> at least one of them.
> 
> So yeah, I hope your friend has a good sense of humour otherwise his 
> first (unwanted) encounter with Linux is likely to be his last! He's not 
> going to be reading this list, he's going to be on Reddit asking the 
> internet how to get that crappy OS off his laptop. And I don't blame him.
> 

CONCUR in big letters with mr meowsky thoughts!
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Eion MacDonald

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