Linux Advocacy

mcleodnine · 12-07-2001, 04:50 PM

An interesting read on how _not_ to alienate the new Linux user.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23245.html

CragStar · 12-08-2001, 07:22 PM

An interesting article and one which is quite true.

I like the phrase "sub-geek", and I think that he has point about this. Maybe the ones who can use the GUI in Linux well are the best teachers. I certainly can't say that I am Linux Geek, as I don't know that much about the insides, enough to get me going, but not alot more.

Instead, maybe I am a sub-geek!

CragStar · 12-08-2001, 07:23 PM

Mind you, still not convinced about his arguement for StarOffice.

Aussie · 12-09-2001, 11:02 AM

Thats a good article, I keep giving my windoze friends copies of mandrake and have even set up dual boot systems for some of them, so far I've got a couple of them pointing and clicking away and one that has got so far into linux that he calls me up on the phone so I can give him realtime CLI lessons.

Deanodriver · 12-16-2001, 07:14 PM

I just installed a copy of Mandrake (7.2) on a friend's Pentium 150 for him to try out Linux last weekend.....

i'll show him how to use it better over time.....