[nylug-talk] Ubuntu

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Usually the motivation is Money. Most people see M$rosoft everywhere in
the work place, hence they assume M$rosoft skills equal Money somewhere
down the road.

I'd been banging a keyboard 15 years before I knew Red Hat existed.
(Er, that would be the Radio Shack, Commodore64 period).
(Er, between Pterodactyls and Neanderthal Man).


On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 19:24 +0000, sixtyfourbeets wrote:
> On 6/30/06, mike at jurney.org <mike at jurney.org> wrote:

> 
> More interestingly if the measure you use to define the phrase 'easy to use'
> is an MS box let me remind you how many times a MS user had to bang their
> heads against the screen for any number of issues.  From virus', to
> data-loss caused by viruses.  The energy wasted it took to learned in
> navigating around an MS machine to figure out how to fix it could have just
> as easily been applied in picking up how to use a Linux machine.  The skills
> gained would have been much more useful.  The only thing that I see is that
> MS is finally released a version of their windows that is presumably more
> secure.