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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: The problem with Linux
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:50:10 -0000 (UTC)
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Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote at 12:33 this Friday (GMT):
> On 2024-03-22, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 08:47:25 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
>>
>>> Support lines may help, but the best support is someone you know you can
>>> ask questions, which makes the best way to get people into Linux, is to
>>> promote it to people you think may be interest AND are willing to help. 
>>> I'm going to install it on another acquaintences machine, as he is
>>> interested in moving away from Microsoft.
>>
>> I wonder how many support calls RHEL and the other enterprise Linux 
>> distros get? In my experience our clients have our support people on speed 
>> dial and wouldn't think of asking Microsoft for help even with obvious 
>> windows problems. 
>
> Come to think of it, the only time Ive ever known somene to call
> Microsoft support, may have been, *may* have been at work, where the
> IT Admin might have been having trouble with the companies email
> server running Microsoft Exchange.  But I don't know of any home user
> who has called it.
>
> I don't think many people think of using the support, they generally
> ask people they know, or to go forums.


Yeah, because most free supports are just bots.
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