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Default A Perfect Case For NOT Using Linux.
On 6/21/15, 5:49 PM, in article , "rbowman"
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On 06/21/2015 05:41 PM, Snit wrote:
I used to do the same thing - I live in a neighborhood of many older
families (though also others) and offer free tech support. Went through a
fair amount of time when many computers, for whatever reason, where having
significant issues (maybe tied to when Vista was popular...

Using Vista and popular in the same sentence is a stretch.

Fair enough.

One of the neighbors I mentioned bought a Vista machine... it came with a
printer. And no drivers for the printer. None were available from the
manufacturer. Utterly insane "bundle". Ended up moving them to Ubuntu and
they could at least print.

Later they moved to Windows 7.

We had a Vista machine so we could certify our products would run on it but
afaik not one of our clients ever went to Vista. They ran XP until the
hardware died and went to 7. Windows 8 was about the same and there is
scepticism about Windows 10 in the professional community. Let the home users
get sucked into it, see how much is broken, and then maybe migrate in a year
or two.





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