Re: My 2 cents, linux is great

From: Sybren Stuvel (sybrenUSE_at_YOURthirdtower.imagination.com)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:49:40 +0200

res18zoi enlightened us with:
> I just started using linux (suse 8.0) from years of using Microsoft
> products

Great!

> yes i'm using xp right now because I have one computer and my wife is
> not converted yet

Some tips: drop Outlook, and use some real email/usenet program instead.
For instance Mozilla Thunderbird for email. Drop Internet Explorer and
use Mozilla Firefox instead. Get rid of MS Office and replace it with
OpenOffice.org. That way, your wife can get used to the software first.
After switching to Linux, she'll be glad she can use the software she
will be used to by then. It'll make the transition a lot easier.

> So for all you people that just hate linux (any distro) you are just
> too lazy to learn a little and would rather pay hundreds of dollars on
> an OS and antivirus (except avg) and firwall (except za) and
> especially microsoft office.

LOL Yep, that's right! Remember though, that most of the windoze users
are even too lame to pay for what they use.

Sybren 

-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?