Re: Family tech support

[Robert Portvliet <robert.portvliet () gmail com>]

I'm afraid would & will are two different things, both my girlfriend &
my mother are able to use Ubuntu with no problems & I do agree that it
is a very easy distro to use.

However, when I was shopping for a eeepc I saw quite a few posts
saying 'don't get $xmodel it has Linux on it!'... I'm sure almost all
users could easily use Gnome, the problem is getting them to try
something new.




On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Chris Boyd <cboyd () gizmopartners com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 18:51 -0500, Robert Portvliet wrote:
> > Because that's what they know, $DEITY forbid they have to learn
> > anything new...
> >
> > *sigh* I can't see Linux ever really being big on the desktop, pretty
> > much just for this reason.
>
> I think that the user "retraining" issue is overrated.  M$ has been
> changing the locations and appearances of things with every release of
> the WinOS and Office applications.  Configure Gnome with the main menu
> on the bottom and I think that most WinXP users would be able to cope.
>
> --Chris
>
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