In July, I actually had the odd experience, of having a life long Winblows user, talking up the virtues of Linux GUI desktops, to me. It was not expected, but was certainly welcome, even though I could not respond in kind, for obvious reasons, accept to point out the strengths of the operating system in general. On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Janina Sajka wrote: > Don't get confused by fuzzy thinking. This isn't end user systems I'm > talking about. It's back room stuff aimed at heavy duty teckies. > > Oh, and don't think it's all command line. Remember, they CAN use GNOME > and KDE and all the other X widget sets, unlike us. > > > Shaun Oliver writes: > > From: Shaun Oliver <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au> > > > > I still maintain that half the battle is convincing them that linux is a > > viable alternative. > > there's people out there that don't wanna learn a whole new terminology > > for devices or drives etc. > > unfortunately they want point click and I don't care how it gets done. > > personally, I'd like the entire world's computing population to make the > > switch but if that were to happen, you'd end up with a similar result. > > sick and infected computers. > > why. > > because the coders of viri are targeting for mass disruption. > > and let's face it, the majority of the world's pc users out there and > > make no mistake they're nothing more some are a bit less but, they're > > users. > > dumb users that point shoot and hope for the best. > > until we change that mind set we won't get anywhere. > > > > -- > > Shaun Oliver [snipped]
