Recently I have bought and installed one of beautiful Asus mini PC for my father:
While the PC is actually very well designed, light and silent, the Operating System it pre-installs destroyed what little fun I had. Yes, it pre-installs Windows Vista Home Premium Edition. The Vista user interface look pretty, but the actual usability lags behind even my Ubuntu Linux Laptop.Take printer support for example. Using my Ubuntu Laptop, I could just plug-in the USB port of our Epson Stylus printer and print documents pretty easily, but the same didn't happen on Windows Vista. I had to figure out different version of vendor supported driver before Vista stopped complaining. Also, Wi-fi wasn't working at all. For unknown reason, Vista just won't accept any Vendor supplied device driver... well, even Windows 98 was better than that.
So, in order to bring some Linux sense into my father's head, I tried to persuade him to install Ubuntu Linux. I showed him everything fancy and fun that I could show using Compiz Fusion, and he was indeed amazed. Then my father asked: if Linux is so good, then why no one is actually using it?
Because people are afraid of change, pa. He nod, and told me that he, too, is afraid of change.
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