On 06/03/2012 12:03 PM, x414e54 wrote:
Even my friends, I tell them about linux, and they are very skillful with computers but have no intention to use anything that is not pre-installed on their system.
Yes. I tell friends that it's free and they're interested, but afraid to try it because they "need" Windows programs. I tell them that there are Linux equivalents that can read/edit/write files that the Windows programs understand and they're more interested. They ask about anti-virus and I explain that the malware that's currently out there in the wild bounces when it hits Linux and they're impressed. But they don't change, they don't try it, they don't even burn and try a LiveCD to see what it's like. They just can't imagine freeing themselves of Windows.
I do have two friends who use Linux, as a secondary OS, but they're geeks, and they're doing it so that they can support it. Several years ago, my sister (NOT a geek!) tried a LiveCD of Ubuntu. After only five minutes, she called out, "Joe, I *WANT* this!" We set her up with a dual boot system, and within a week, she'd stopped booting into Windows. The moral of this (if there is one) is don't tell them about Linux, give them a chance to try it for themselves.
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