New laptop

[linux_0]

Hear, hear!

 

[linux_0]

I yield the floor back to Zorak, MP.

😀

 

[feifeivictor]

i chose HASEE HP410.
HASEE is the cheapest in my opinion

 

[audiovoodoo]

@Zorak - I've just spent to many years supporting those messed up carbon based data destruction units. Forgive my bitter a clinical nature, but after 15 years of it I can only conclude that most end users are to thick to be trusted with so much as the choice of which background to choose.

Some choices are forced upon you, our UK tax office was forcing people to use IE last year for on-line filing. I'd like to see it made law that any state site HAD to be cross browser compatible / built to W3C spec.

 

[linux_0]

M$ assumes everyone is a complete ....... fill in the blank.

Linux assumes you're an intelligent carbon based life form

 

[audiovoodoo]

It's all about the assumptions though, and this is where it all starts to go wrong. When I started my new job a while back I took a risky move and actually went and talked to main users to ASK them what they actually needed from my team. It was the first time anybody had actually asked them rather than told them. Not one of my customers wanted new features, not one wanted anything that we hadn't already got. What they wanted was simplicity, consistency and dependability*

From my experience most people do not actually want new, they want what they have to work well. We should never forget that even the daftest question we see on Toms will be coming from somebody that would fall into 'advanced user' class and that many of the things we read here are more reflective of the needs / desires of enthusiasts and not the general users.

 

[linux_0]

I'm all for simplicity, consistency and dependability

So is Linux, although the simplicity is often hidden under a cloak of complexity or perceived complexity.

 

[audiovoodoo]

I think that last line is quote worthy!!

Very much the case, in essence the interfaces are VERY simple yet in practice we all get caught out by them 🙁

 

[randomizer]

Sharing my own n00bish experiences: I completely and utterly botched an installation of video drivers (I think I tried the hard way, stupid me) so that the OS had to run in low-graphics mode just to display anything and required stopping and starting X to get to the desktop. It took me a while to work it out, but eventually I discovered that it was a simple matter of "sudo nvidia-installer --uninstall" and the botched drivers were gone. I wouldn't want to know what crap would have been left over on Windows somewhere. Good thing there is Driver Sweeper 😉