Damn the day job!

My day job is getting in the way of blogging!  But there are benefits...  I was working with a couple of people today - and they were bemoaning their laptops for taking to long to boot up.

One of them was getting so frustrated, I thought he was going to take a mallet to his laptop - and he only needed to access the web to get something from his cloud...  My first thought was why doesn't he own a smartphone or tablet... But who am I to judge...

As I watched these people wrestle with madness, I returned to my office, recovered my personal laptop (my dual boot beast) took it back to where they were and booted to Ubuntu.  They started by looking at me thinking I was there to provide redundant assistance... Until I was in my Operating System and had opened Chromium and was surfing while they were still trying to boot or access the right application.

When I invited these folks to use my 'PC' (I say it that way - as they assumed I was on a 'better' version of Windows) the queue formed... There were 4 people waiting to use my laptop to send info to their companies - even though by this time, their laptops had booted.

They did what they needed to do - but 2 stopped afterwards and asked how I had Mac software on my non-apple laptop.  When I explained it was Linux they were using, both baulked!  But both asked what 'version' I was using.

I may need to make cards... As I found myself writing on Post-It notes, how to spell U-B-U-N-T-U.

I'm a novice, but a total convert kind-of-novice... In the words of AA or NA... 'Hello, I'm an addict! It has been  2 weeks since I booted into Windows... But I have invited at least 2 people to join me on the path to righteousness.'

I need to write more, I need to write more for the novice like me... I just hope that I find the time and that someone out there would set me a challenge that would help a novice like me to enjoy this OS/System/Community even more than I already am!