On 2019-03-07 23:21, John Doe wrote:
"Jonathan N. Little" wrote:

Paul wrote:

And I still don't believe a bit, the stories about "I gave my
grandma Linux and she hasn't phoned back since".

Well for the folks that I have installed Ubuntu, a number of which
needed to ditch obsoleted XP, I received far fewer questions then
when they had Windows.

And the cow jumped over the moon.
I just did an install of Ubuntu (twice). Had to do everything via the
keyboard since it didn't recognize my Logitech mouse. That is unusual in
my experience, but everything Paul said sounds exactly right. Linux is a
server operating system. Always has been, always will be. No comparison
to Windows for the average user.


Err... I'd say that there's a problem with the mouse, probably that
particular mouse, not Ubuntu. Ubuntu works here with the touchpad on
this laptop, with Microsoft mice on this laptop and elsewhere, with
Logitech mice, including Logitech mice which are allergic to Macs, with
no-name 3rd-party very cheap mice, even with _Apple_ mice and Bluetooth
trackpads, which is a minor miracle.

I am becoming increasingly annoyed with Windows. This laptop is slowing
down and freezing more and more. In particular it is now taking a very
long time to load most non-Microsoft applications; MS Office loads in a
flash, other apps, especially LibreOffice, crawl. Gee, I wonder why this
might be. I am currently looking to replace the last few major
applications I run which require Windows with Linux equivalents. Once
that is done, this laptop gets one final backup just in case and then is
reformatted and re-deployed with Ubuntu, probably 1804 or 1810, unless
1904 delivers something I really like. That should stretch its life out
another two-three years, and when it finally dies I'll probably replace
it with another laptop formatted with Ubuntu. Or with a MacBook of some
kind, running Ubuntu in a VM. I am quite unlikely to get a new Windows
install unless there is significant change at Microsoft. I consider the
probability of there being significant change to approach zero quite
closely. YMMV.