Sunday, December 31, 2006
Windows screwup forces Ubuntu shift
YOU NEVER QUITE wrap your head around how anti-consumer Microsoft's policies are until they bite you in the bum. Add in the customer antagonistic policies of its patsies, HP in this case, and vendors like Promise, and you have quite a recipe for pain. Guess what I did today?
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# posted by picdout @ 18:24 
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I work at a support desk for a large computer manufacturer(it begins with a D) for 7 months now and I can savely say that at least 60% of all the problems we got to solve are microsoft software related. BSOD's, drivers and wireless configuration problems are most of the culprits.
The problem is that most of the people I support really dont understand even the minimum basics of XP or MediaCentre Edition. They can barely use a mouse properly(I'm really not kidding).
Getting those people to embrase Ubuntu .... I both shudder and enthuse. Just dreaming but: No more driverproblems, no bsod's, networking that just plain works. A stable system. Ah ... sheer delight
But then again: explaining a 89 year old woman with a hearing problem how she has to compile her kernel with the latest development sources to use that specific wireless card .... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh
Btw:
MS's support desk, which sometimes we have to transfer to in case somebody has a liscensing problem, have the unholy habit/tendency to throw it back over the fenceline to us, while it is their product. I detest them for that.
The problem is that most of the people I support really dont understand even the minimum basics of XP or MediaCentre Edition. They can barely use a mouse properly(I'm really not kidding).
Getting those people to embrase Ubuntu .... I both shudder and enthuse. Just dreaming but: No more driverproblems, no bsod's, networking that just plain works. A stable system. Ah ... sheer delight
But then again: explaining a 89 year old woman with a hearing problem how she has to compile her kernel with the latest development sources to use that specific wireless card .... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh
Btw:
MS's support desk, which sometimes we have to transfer to in case somebody has a liscensing problem, have the unholy habit/tendency to throw it back over the fenceline to us, while it is their product. I detest them for that.
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: 1/18/2007 4:27 PM
: 1/18/2007 4:27 PM
That is brutal. I always hated dealing with Windows installs because of all the legal BS surrounding the install CDs.
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