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You can't fix everything. But my Mom is as dumb as a stump on
computers, and she migrated to linux with no training. <br>
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Here's the web icon. You click on this to run the internet. Here's
your email icon, click on it to check your email. That was her
training.<br>
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Actually, the only other thing I showed her was to install new
packages. If she wants a new card game or something, I showed her how
to search in the rpm database for similiar games, read the description,
install the game, then go to the menu to find it.<br>
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Its been months. She hasn't called me since then with any questions -
not once. It was a seamless transition. <br>
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Kyle Spaans wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Just to play the devil's advocate. My mom would argue this issue with
me whenever I tried to get her to use Linux (or anyone else in my
family for that matter).
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Insurance Squared Inc.
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gcooke@insurancesquared.com"><gcooke@insurancesquared.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">1) friends and family on linux. Evaluate whether they actually have apps
that must run on windows. If not, wipe, and install linux on their machine
for them. Sell it as 'I'll make your computer go faster and look better'.
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What if the computer's user is very resistant to change. And I don't mean
that new things scare them because change is necessarily bad, but rather
that any change in the UI confuses the user greatly. Apparently my
grandparents are like this: if the name, shape, size, or colour of the "Mail"
icon on the desktop changes at all then they can no longer check their
mail, thinking that the mail program is "gone".
Supposedly even things as small as changing widgets or colours of the
windowing system can confuse users as well. Admittedly, this is yet
another education issue with Linux vs "that thing that my computer
came with when I bought it", but I would like to hear what other people
think.
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<pre wrap="">2) For those in the computer retail business, here's what I'd consider doing
now that linux is desktop ready. Offer a "new computer for $150".
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I like this idea. :)
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