See if Anyone Notices at Robert Pogson

I was reading an article in The Register and came upon this line in a comment:”Or use the fact that Win7 is a totally alien environment to try a Linux distro and see if anyone actually notices!”

The comment was on an article about M$ continuing to permit downgrading to XP. It seems much of the world using XP is still reluctant or unable to migrate to “7″. It really is a lot of work for some outfits to migrate to “7″ and they are better off to migrate to GNU/Linux to get off the Wintel treadmill. At this rate, M$ may still be selling XP when “27″ comes out, a testimony to irrelevance and cluelessness. I wonder how long they will cling to the myth that “7″ is the world’s best selling OS when in reality XP holds that title. It sells from the grave.

I have introduced people to GNU/Linux who thought it was a new release of that other OS…

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.