[Wylug-discuss] Trying to use Linux at home

[John R Hudson]

> John R Hudson writes:
> 
> > Personally, I would never recommend anyone to go 
straight from Windows
> > to Linux.
> 
> Smylers writes:
>
> I think "never recommend anyone" is too strong: certainly 
there are
> people for whom it wouldn't be appropriate, but that 
doesn't mean nobody
> can cope with such a change.
> 
> > The learning curve is too steep and there are certain 
applications for
> > which there is no adequate Linux equivalent.
> 
> But not all users have need for such applications.  
Possibly counter-
> intuitively, it can be the more technical Windows users 
who find it
> hardest to adapt to Linux.
> 
> I recently converted a friend's laptop from Windows Vista 
to Ubuntu.
> She only uses it for MSN Messenger, Facebook, Hotmail, 
and the web --
> she barely noticed the change in OS.  I doubt she even 
knows what an OS
> is; she was just delighted that I'd "got Facebook working 
again on her
> computer"!

Glad to hear your experiences haven't been as bleak as 
mine. Perhaps I should be a bit more optimistic.

John


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