arthur

Yes, some people are really not ready convert to Linux. I won't be installing it on my friend's computer for the following reasons:

1) He plays games on it, and nothing else

2) He changes games every 3 weeks

2) He won't be able to install anything - he can only click "next"

3) He thinks I'll always be around to fix it if viruses hit (again) <<tough luck I'm moving to England in september!

By the way, have any of you got an USB ADSL modem working?(mine is Aztech DSL500U) since I got to use windows everytime I use the net, or the Linux box in school. Windows freezes up every week or two, and it's driving me crazy.

A few months ago I was surfing some news sites, using the only operating system I've ever known...When I came across the curious article about the SCO lawsuit. I thought, hm, I'll check out this Linux thing, and started clicking on the links -

"Timeline of the SCO Lawsuit" Click.

"What is Linux?" Click.

"Download Linux" Click.

I got convinced that the SCO lawsuit was baseless, and I never looked back since. Now I have two Linux boxes running Mandrake 9.2 in school, and once I get all hardware support, I'm installing it on my laptop and be free of Windows forever!!! :D

I'm also going to install it on my siblings' computer and hopefully many more. I'm reading up a lot to get past the newbie level (ashamed to admit I was a windows "resident geek") and this forum has helped me enormously. Even my school project is now about Linux. I'm obsessed.

So there you have it, a successful "conversion" thanks ironically to SCO.

So thanks again to mandrakeusers.org!

And thanks, SCO!

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disclaimer: this does NOT mean that I don't care about the ongoing lawsuit, I'm on the Linux side now.