If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7

Re:If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7 by graemep on Thursday January 01, 2009 @11:30PM (#417034)

Personally I think Linux is a viable desktop OS for many people. It has been my desktop for about seven years. I have moved two very non-geek users to it in the last two years and they are both quite happy too.

MS defenders vary. Some have invested time learning MS technologies. Others worship wealth and success. Others have simply had bad luck with other OSes and have lost interest in trying again.

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Re:If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7 by twopoint718 on Friday January 02, 2009 @11:20AM (#417396)

I've had a lot of luck moving "non-geek" users to Linux. For those that cite these (once valid) points:

* Driver support

* Running windows applications (and here I'm including their equivalent, or under Wine/Crossover)

* Ease of use/installation

I'd be interested to hear what distro they tried and when they tried it. My last few installs of Debian/Ubuntu, even on non-x86 hardware has been a breeze and certainly much quicker than installing a fresh copy of XP.

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