<br>Getting someone into Linux is a seems like a big time investment. You become there "go-to" guy, they guy they turn to when they don't RTFM, when they RTFM, but don't understand it (Try "man 7 regex"), and when they totally borked their documentation resources. But I do myself promote it and setup users with dual boots. My stepfather can use it girlfried uses it and my 10yr old nephew uses abd loves it always askes me stuff. The more I show the more he wants to learn. <br><b><i>joshj@linuxmail.org</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> >> snip<br>> If my 80something step-mother can do Linux, ANYONE can! As long as you give <br>> them easy email and web browsing (Firefox/Thunderbird), the rest is cake.<br><br>Oh, he could do it, but between him and his girlfriend they would<br>constantly be like "Josh, where's minesweeper?" or "Josh, I just bought<br>this scanner and I
followed the installation instructions and it doesn't<br>work. the cd won't even launch!" or "Josh, this really cool geneology<br>program I had for my old computer doesn't work on this one". I'd love to<br>get them switched over, but they are just-enough-used-to-windows that it<br>would be tough. They would have to consult with me before buying<br>anything so that I could first make sure it would work with Linux. This<br>was just easier for me. I tightened windows down the best I could. But<br>when it comes time to reinstall maybe I'll make up some bullshite about<br>how all those programs made the computer slow (which, in a way, they<br>will) and that using Linux with just these programs which I have<br>installed is the only way around this. And then they will see first-hand<br>how slow spyware and whatnot can make a pc. I've got them hooked up with<br>Firefox and Thunderbird and told them that if they must instant-message<br>then use gaim.<br><br>I hate to resort to them u
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windows. I really do. I wish that fate on<br>noone. But its hard, because at some point they will want to buy a<br>photo-organizer that they tried at a friends house that was really cool<br>or something.<br><br>-Josh<br>_______________________________________________<br>nflug mailing list<br>nflug@nflug.org<br>http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug<br></blockquote><br><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com