Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Tue 30th Jun 2009 16:48 UTC
While traversing about the web this afternoon, I came across a rather funny subject title for a forum post. The person asked if any "normal" people use Linux, but went on to ask forgiveness for the lack of a better word than "normal." He wonders if anyone who isn't an open source, uber-geeky, stay-up-until-dawn-exploring-code fanatic actually uses Linux. Though the congregation here at OSNews is (obviously) comprised of very many of the aforementioned fanatics (in a sense; wear the title with pride), I also believe there to be many readers who are more or less "normal," for the lack of a better word, and plenty who may fall in between both spectrums of nerdiness.
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I've installed Linux on my father's browsing pc and laptop, since all he needs is the ability to browse, and read email. The browsing PC is an oldie, with not much ram, and an ailing HDD. But thanks to the low-end friendly localized distro and not needing to run a resource hog virus scanner, it was a considerable speedup compared to XP, and he likes it. That said, he wasn't dependent on any Microsoft specific feature/product/education to begin with, so it was an easy enough switch. I ended up just rsyncing everything over to a partition on the laptop, so he has the exact same desktop on there as well. Also, I introduced a local pub owner looking for a simple MP3 and CD playing solution to GeeXboX, that worked just fine on a trashy p2, that's bios didn't even see the entire HDD, for years. They might still be using it.