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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! -- Regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq