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What happens when joe soap and wife (who have little experience of computers apart from using one at work) see one of these pc's, decide to buy one for the kids as it is far more helpful to their future education than a console, and then find that they can't use (say) the family digital camera as no one has written drivers? What happens whe little johnny soap (their son) discovers that not only has he got a pc instead of the console he was promised, but that 90% of the games available won't run without extra software (if at all)?
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I cant speak for all digital cameras but i`ve not plugged one in yet that has`nt shown up on my desktop as an extra drive.I might not have all the fancy fuctions of your typical sony erricson suite of course but i can get my photos off and into my photo editing/viewing apps without a problem, which is all i want really.
If anyone who only uses a pc at work "sees" teh Linux pc and buys it thinking it`s like/Windows and will do just fine for wee Soapy & his "pc" games then tough luck i say.They need slapped with a wet fish and sent on some better IT courses at work mabey.
If they genuinely are more concerned about their kids education though then mabey Linux might just turn out to be such a bad mistake after all eh?
I dont know what it is about gamers though but they assume everyone else only wants to play games.
Our lot have all their Playstations,Nintendos & psps and they do have Windows around
if they want to play "pc" games but i doubt our girls are ever going to be tooo interested in gaming as such and our lad would certainly rather have his consoles for his games.
It`s just not a big deal thats all.