[Sussex] Noob

[Mark Barber]

My experiences are more promising - in a 5 pc home Windoze network I 
have a Linux server and my family find that certain programs are just 
better than the M$ counterparts such that it is much in demand as a 
workstation too. After a boot sector virus attack that has destroyed my 
daughters life works she now wants to move to Lx. I am playing with 
terminal servers as the first step to see how they would cope with a 
migration. One comment I must make at the risk of  being flamed though 
is that all this compiling kernel stuff is not the way forward. I use 
Mandrake and would say it is almost as easy as a Windows install. I am 
sure there are others just as ready - the point is Keep It Simple 
(Stupid if you are American)

Mark

Angelo Servini wrote:

> 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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