18 Oct 2001 premus   » (Journeyer)

Among other things today was the day when I recovered a lost soul. A friend of mine told me once how sick is of Windows and all the problems he have with it. In one of it's visit he noticed that what we are running doesn't look like Windows, he was shocked to find that there are other OS'es available.

So today we installed Mandrake 8 on his computer. I don't know if he will manage to resist the big switch (if he manages to hold on for two weeks he won't switch back). But to be honest doesn't even matter if he will remain with Linux or not, what matters is that he now knows that there are alternatives and that is what matters. BTW, he is a small business owner and he is quite committed to switch all his computers from Windows to Linux.

There where a couple of funny things in his reaction when we installed it. First he didn't really understand how is possible to only allocate 8 G of space for an OS and don't worry about future applications. Well it's amazing how much can go in 8Gigs and how much space will still be available ;). Also after playing with all the window managers and all the applications (well not quite with all) he was wandering how can Microsoft make money selling that crap when there is this piece of software which is so "easy to install" and so "sweet" (his words :) . Well, Linux wasn't always like that, I just remember 98 or 99 when I was trying to install Debian for the first time, and after a whole week I still didn't manage to get all those dependencies right and I switched to Slackware.

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