Goodbye Windows, hello Linux

[Trip]

I would suggest that, except for those who are doing processor intensive stuff, the main advantage  with LL is that you can keep hardware running until  the latter fails.  No need to buy extra sports car  performance to do normal office/home day to day work.

i.e. not be forced to upgrade just so that YOU can keep operating!! OS blackmail IMHO.  Therefore the next crop of those for conversion will be the Vista users for whom it will be difficult to obtain  genuine Windows 7 for their machines, without running the  counterfeit guantlet

It's funny you should mention all that as It's what I've just done this week.

I teach the over 50's clients at AgeUK on how to use computers and the Internet. Seeing as though I'm also a computer engineer, I like to sort out their computers of any problems before I start the course. It makes it so much easier to teach them when their computers actually work

My new client had a single core 2.0Gb laptop with only 1Gb of shared memory and a crappy Vista install (that wasn't really usable due to Vista being buggy and the CPU being constantly stuck at 100%). For the age of the laptop and the use that she needed it for Linux Lite seemed a good fit. She will probably want to get a new computer in 5 years or so anyway.

I haven't suggested Linux to any of my clients before because of it not fully supporting things like Flash and Silverlight, but seeing as Flash is becoming blocked by browsers and Microsoft have stopped supporting Silverlight recently, I thought why not? The only other reason that I wouldn't suggest that my clients use Linux is the official support, but most computer engineers have at least basic Linux experience these days anyway; And if they don't then they're not very good at their job and my clients should stay away from them.

My client seemed very pleased when I gave her a quick run through so she took it home for a test run. I'll see how she's got on on Monday, fingers crossed

EDIT: Just tried Windows 10 today. Slow as hell on a 3Gh desktop machine with 4Gb of RAM and a half decent Nvidia graphics card. Not impressed.