On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Wim Horst wrote:
> I am still trying to convince my kids to use linux. They dont buy it. They
> learned how to use windows and do not want to put much effort in learning how
> to work with linux. To fool them, programs must resemble those of windows and
> should not need ( much ) configuration. So the problem is, because they are
> used to windows linux has to be even more user friendly ( and faster ).
> Nevertheless i agree with you mandrake has don a lot and things are getting
> better rapidly.
Not everyone is going to use Linux. My mom's computer runs windows 98 and
one day, she got an error message while trying to print something
and then it just started printing page after page of raw data - jiberish
to her - certainly not the picture she had wanted to print. Earlier that
day, I had printed some stuff from her computer and so I bought some
paper to replace the paper I had used. She was CONVINCED that the error
was caused by "that paper I bought". I also got my mom to switch from aol
to verizon dsl - she swears that she's never had so much problem with aol
and I went to see if I could help her with her problem. She somehow
managed to make the default windows "page not found" error her permanent
home page. Now I'm not trying to make my mom look dumb, but there are
definitly different levels of users out there and you are just NOT going
to be able to appease all of them. Sometimes you just have to say "read
the manual"
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Michael Holt
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