rootninja

”’ “Linux - We don’t recommend it.” — Those were the words spoken to a fellow I work with. The person uttering those words is a Dell Customer Service Representative, one of those that helps you “build” your computer as you speak to them over the phone. Gary is typical of the baby boomers who sit down behind a computer. He doesn’t use a computer as much as he uses a small handful of applications on it. Kind of like a refrigerator. It sits there day in and day out waiting to do it’s job in the event someone wants to eventually come by and grab something cold out of it. He has no real idea of the raw power at his fingertips…and he doesn’t want to. He simply needs something to check his email, read some news on a couple of websites and provide a home for his anti-virus software. Gary, when it’s all said and thought about, is afraid of his computer. His few forays into the internet jungle have given him a nasty case of DTD’s (digitally transmitted diseases) from time to time and pain is a good teacher.

He just doesn’t use it much anymore because of the nasty experiences. That’s when I found out Gary isn’t as technically-challenged as I thought him to be. He came to me and asked me if I’d look at his less-than-one-year-old Dell computer and take some of the garbage off of it. Seems Gary is victim to the Antivirus 2009 malware and it’s variants that so many Windows Users fall prey to. I asked him if he would consider putting Linux on it. He just shrugged. “I tried to have it put on there when I ordered the computer…they said they could but they didn’t recommend it.” ”’

Excerpt from http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/01/gatekeepers-of-our-technology.html