[Sussex] Noob

[Angelo Servini]

I learned an important lesson over the weekend.  One of my friends a lady in her 'forties' is beginning a part time degree, and needed her computer set up with the appropriate software.  The computer in question is my fiancees old computer, as she no longer needs it.  The friend has been using M$ for a number of years, purely on an user basis for basic wordprocessing, some IE surfing and the odd bit of grapical work - ie paintshop.  I suggested that as I was starting from scratch, why not try linux.  She agreed and I installed 'ubuntu'.   After taking her on a very basic tour of it and expaining that 'Open office' would do exactly what she wanted.  The timid soul that she is she still said 'no', please put M$ back on the PC.  The reason given is that she already knows M$ and she does not have time to get into yet something else.  Also, I would not always be around to help her if anything went wrong and she is not a techie.
 
The fact is that the majority of users (I believe) fall into this category - they are not techies, and never will be.  Quite a formidable barrier to overcome.  I really dont know the answer to this one.  I won't give up though.  I still believe that she should have given linux a go, especially as her computing needs are so few - she would have had a very stable system and missed out on all the crashes, viruses, trojans, ad-ware etc. etc.
 
Never mind - onward ho.  My fiancee - Sue however, seems to like linux, although she is very new to it.

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Angelo Servini
Programmer/Analyst
Claybrook Computing Ltd
Sutherland House
Russell Way
Crawley
West Sussex.  RH10 1UH
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