Re: Got my parent to switch to Linux



messiahandrw@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Anyone who says Linux is harder to use than Windows certainly haven't
seen a lot of the more modern distros targeted to be usuable for the
not-so-literate computer users, like Mandrake and Ubuntu.

For most users, Linux is just point&click, it's only if you want to make your
own kernel, compile your own programs that you need to run a terminal and of
course working from console is always more complicated for novice users than
click&point.

People are afraid of that if they try Linux they may not want to use microsoft
anymore.


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//Aho
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