[sclug] Promoting linux

[Matt]

* alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> [2005-08-16 08:46:01]:
> 
> Window managers, gui's etc are very significant to more experienced 
> users, but to an off-street punter who is just getting interested in a 
> different os from 'doze, is likely to see wm choice as uneccesary 
> trouble and complication. It also feeds into some points against linux 
> raised by $bill - 'linux has no defined base' (my quotes).
> 
> I believe that total newbies will be more comfortable with mention of 
> only one wm (kde?) - for a few months...........

I'm fairly sure any mention of this to a new user would result in
"What's a Window Manager?", best to just give it to them with the
introduction "This is Linux", as daft as it sounds, kind've like I was
taught Chemisty at various stages of education.

Matt
-- 
"I know it's your T1 because our network guy teleported into the Baywatch
hub and checked it!"
"It's 'telnet' and 'Bay Networks'."
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