[ale] Linux for "normal" people?

[James Sumners]

Yep. My grandfather uses SuSE and I will probably be loading SuSE or Ubuntu on a
laptop for my brother soon.

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:09:30 -0500
jay <jloden at toughguy.net> wrote:

> Out of curiosity, how many of you on the list have switched friends or family 
> members onto Linux? 
> 
> I for one have gotten my mother and my girlfriend both on Linux, and they're 
> both quite happy with it, despite not knowing pretty much anything about 
> computers.  Do you all have similar experiences?  Thoughts? Comments? 
> 
> I find that for people that aren't gamers, or installing lots of software or 
> otherwise dependent on windows software, linux has worked out great.  My mom 
> does nothing but surf the web, write the occasional document, and read email. 
> I'm just curious if you all have similar experience with "evangelizing" Linux 
> to your friends and coworkers and family. 
> 
> -Jay
> 
> P.S. The following comes from my girlfriend and I over IM the other night, 
> after she rebooted her computer (I gave her Linux and winXP as a safety net 
> in case she had trouble using Linux, since I had no time to teach her 
> anything about Linux after I installed it):
> 
> Me: are you in Windows now then? 
> Her: no
> Me: oh?
> Her: it let me pick
> Me: yeah, but I didn't think you'd pick Linux (lilo boots XP by default)
> Her: why not?
> Her: it's easy to use
> Me: hehehe
> Her: and i don't get a million error messages
> Me: HAHAHA
> Her: windows don't just close themselves for no reason
> Her: i haven't had to restart because of freezing once
> Her: why mess with something that actually works correctly?
> Her: know what i mean?
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