On 06/15/2011 10:54 AM, Navdeep Singh Sidhu wrote: > If anybody want to help us with their ideas , they can share their > precious ideas with us and suggest us for this event. We are very > thankful to you for your help & support. I like to show friends who've never seen Linux in action the Desktop Cube, especially as I have Compiz set to show the open windows floating above the cube instead of resting on the surface. And, I always have one window extending from one desktop to another, both to show how that works and to show it folded when I activate the Cube. Everybody I've shown it to was Very Impressed, even a friend who's a compulsive Windows fanboi. I also explain that this is Linux only and will probably never be ported to Windows because nobody who's capable of doing it is the slightest bit interested. It's a great, highly-visible way of showing people just what Linux is capable of in a way that's much more impressive than showing them programs that look (almost) the same as their Windows equivalents. (People aren't going to consider changing if all they're going to get is the same functionality they already have; you have to offer them something they can't get any other way.) I don't know if you're old enough to remember the old Amiga bouncing ball demo. Like the Cube, it was eye-candy and nothing else, but it was also something that the PCs of the time couldn't match, and that's all that mattered. Getting people interested in trying Linux isn't a matter of persuading them by logic, you have to capture their imaginations. As a last thought, you can also explain that these computers are hooked up to the Internet without any anti-virus, anti-malware or anti-adware programs installed because they don't need them and that you'll probably never need to defrag because Linux doesn't get fragmented like Windows does. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
