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from the it's-2015-and-things-are-easy dept.
I remember a story on the other site years ago when, following the Mojave Experiment, some guys did their own Folgers Test, asking people what they thought of this new (unidentified) UI and most of those folks thought it (KDE) was just more of Redmond's stuff.
Now, there's this story from OpenSource.com.
- Linux is so easy, anyone can install it--even by accident
One day, [...] a user's Windows install went corrupt on her laptop and she accidentally installed Linux. When her laptop couldn't [load the OS] from the hard drive, it automatically booted [to] the network. When she got the PXE install menu, she just hit Enter, installing a Linux desktop with all of our default network security settings and applications.
She then logged into it with her network account and emailed me to say that her Windows had updated and she wanted to know why her Microsoft Office looked so different now and "Where did Outlook go?" We had a good laugh over how Linux is so easy you can install and configure it by accident now, even on a laptop.
Hat tip to Robert Pogson for spotting this. The comment by IT pro oiaohm is, as always, insightful (once you adjust for his dyslexia).
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday October 25 2015, @03:19PM
I laughed until I cried at this.
I worked at a trust bank once, one of the largest in the world. The division there had a set of 5 Excel files they used to calculate their rich clients' financial footing and formulate investment recommendations for them. They would tabulate the bank balances in one file. Then they'd manually copy & paste that over to a second file, where they put it next to the current net worth of their stock portfolios, which they had tabulated in file 3. And so on. It would take them a week and a half to process one client. I brought all five files together in one in the form of tabs, linked it and automated it with macros and their turnaround time per client shrank to 30 minutes. Yup, rocket science, right? The bankers looked at me and said, "You're, like, a freak of nature."
Yes, it was in flyover country.
Washington DC delenda est.