I am forced by university policy to have MS XP on the 16 lab computers, but I adopted two orphaned MS machines and did a complete reinstall of Ubuntu 8.10 (now on 9.04). I have no daughter, only a son*, although my 'daughters-by-proxy' (my students) use an Ubuntu box in my classroom. My wife is still using XP because she has so many things saved on it, it would be a pain to change her over (she didn't even like the new machine because of that). I put Windows 7 on my netbook and upgraded my server to Windows Server 2008 R2. Ubuntu was an attractive option as opposed to Vista, but Windows 7 makes it rather pointless for me (I am an MSDN subscriber). I pretty much only use it for backups and just to play with Linux occasionally or if I need some Linux command-line tools to hook a drive to or something. I am now using the Ubuntu server to replace my old Ubuntu server that was an old desktop computer. I took the brand new fast computer and put Windows 7 on it and it screams. So, they got fed up with Ubuntu and started preferring Mom's fast new machine again.įinally, we decided to buy out my wife's old computer on lease and just set that back up for her. So she actually asked me, "Daddy, can we put Ubuntu on there?" We did, but the problem was that you can't replace the graphics card on the server and Flash was just too slow for their web games with business graphics (H/W optimization was "faked" in the video driver). I had an old server that I was trying to turn into a desktop machine for them so they would stop hogging my wife's computer, and Windows XP continually locked up. My 11-year-old daughter actually asked for Linux.
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