Re: Linux for an older PC
From: ac (_at_candt.demon.co.uk)
Date: 08/23/05
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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:04:03 +0100
Andy Fraser wrote:
> In alt.os.linux, Patrick Grimbergen uttered the immortal words:
>
>>> Besides that, the distro is so easy to install and
>>> use, that my two most computer-illiterate friends use it now without
>>> any trouble.
>> That is true for any computer user.
>>
>> The only people having problems with linux are the ones that have used
>> windows for a long time and just don't want to admit that Linux can do all
>> those things as well.
>
> That would make Windows users a very closed minded lot. Some definitely are
> but are those the sort of people who would try Linux? Maybe, maybe not.
>
> I think Windows users have problems because they can't break out of the
> Windows mindset. They don't seem to able to think about the task they want
> to perform and approach it logically. Some are too lazy to look around
> their desktop and find out where everything is, others just expect their
> knowledge to be transferable wholesale as in "in Windows, to do X, I have
> to do A, B and C" then get lost because A is called something different or
> in a different place.
I was a longtime 'doze user, because it was there. And easy.
I really wanted to get to linux and it took a bit of effort. I am quite
computer literate (recycle them) and the difficulties I had were that
what I knew was *only* the 'doze way. I wanted to do it 'another way',
but it was hard even to find what question to ask!
If I look at my usenet posts about a year ago (bless) it is pitiful.
Some responses were patient (forever grateful). Others were well
meaning, but only gave 95% accuracy. Great for me now, but then, a
single key stroke wrong and I was totally lost again!
Newbie linuxers weaned on 'doze need a lot of patient handholding, and
their stupid questions are a reflection on the 'doze fog factor, not
their capability, but they catch on soon and they soon become comfortable.
-- ac
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