Another win for xubuntu today. My boss' machine had gotten hosed a year or two ago, and instead of reinstalling winxp, I put xubuntu on it. Aside from the occasional crying because things didn't work exactly as they always did, it went pretty well. Fast forward to today...
I walk in the office(late cause everything was icy this morning, and picking up the draftsman took waaay longer than I'd have liked...), the Boss say "Come here a minute" He clicks an email attachment, and it open in libreoffice, and says it includes macros, and was created with some kind of online msoffice.
Me: I already don't like this....
It has some kind of graphic which looks kind of like an office ad, with a button to click. Clicking it doesn't do anything obvious...
Me: Do you know who this came from?!
Boss: Yea, I talked to him awhile ago...
Me: Why is he sending you stuff? Let me see the email
Boss: Shows me a mail from some guy he hasn't talked to in ages. Subject says Resend: and the recipient list has a hundred people in it...
Me: WTF's wrong with you?! That's some kind of virus. Dumbass...
and that's how xubuntu saved the day. Ubuntu saved my mother from "MS tech support". I should assign a dollar value to these incidents, and get them to send donations to the FSF :^D