Re: Because you have better stuff to do than fixing your computer

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 00:39 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
[snip]
> One thing that struck me after installing another Operating System on my 
> girlfriends computer is how much stuff that screws up all the time. 
> Constant troubles with viruses, trouble with devices that don't work 
> (and not being able to find the install cd's for them) and so on. Not to 
> talk about the time it takes to get everything up and working. It took 
> me about a day to get everything working in order, installing all the 
> apps like Illustrator, Photoshop, Adobe Reader etc.
[snip]
> I'm currently trying to come up with a list of stuff that I have to do 
> on my girlfriends system that I don't need to do on mine. Hopefully the 
> rest of you can come up with a thing or two yourself. Let's do some 
> brainstorming people!
> 
> http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/betterstufftodo.png
[snip]

I think it's a good idea to be positive about the GNOME life, but I
think it's best to be more direct about that. An ad that's all about how
bad Windows is would not be as effective as an add that's all about how
good GNOME is.

People know that Windows is crappy and frustrating. If we can get the
"just works" and "I can do cool stuff" and "My life is good" ideas
across, I think people will make the comparison without us spelling it
out for them.

-- 
Murray Cumming
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