On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 10:23 -0600, lynn wrote:
Does anyone here use openSUSE on just a single computer? Lynn
I think you mean: do you (own, administer, work with) just one computer. Unlikely that many on this sort of technical list do. At the very least we have households with other people and their computers in them, and it looks as if many of us are (or were, in my case) responsible for fleets of the things. We two oldish people have three machines with openSUSE (they have other operating systems as well) in constant use plus an elderly laptop and enough bits in the computer closet to make maybe 2 and a half more. I take care of 5 or 6 friends and relatives and maintain a couple of ancient programs for my former employer (the users like them and refuse to learn anything new -- story of my life). When you're in that rut you need to have Windows XP both virtual and on bare metal somewhere. Thanks be to $DIETY that the university couldn't afford to bite on Vista. I'm considering converting my wife's play and writing computers to Linux Mint for a couple of reasons: 1. It's dead easy for the non-technically adept to learn and use. 2. If I croak suddenly, she's got time either to learn the little additional stuff she'd have to to upgrade in a year or two when things start to get old or to hook up with another nerd. oS would take more learning than I suspect she'd we willing to do, and you can't count on the nerd, who's more likely to be familiar with the Ubuntu family anyway. 3, I've already done this for several friends. I don't know many middle-class people, either in Europe or North America (even singles) with one or fewer computers; not many of them rolled their own, so most of them have already paid for some crap from Microsoft. -- N. B. Day 39° 28.3964' North, 119° 48.6346' West, 1403m up Aurelius up 1 day 23:40, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop x86_64 GNU/Linux openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org