On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:03:45PM -0800, justin bengtson wrote: > --- Bob Crandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good. I find that the general population is less reluctant to switch if the > > new > > one looks, acts and feels like the old one. > > except evolution runs under linux, which, to the general populace, means > technobabble and gurus and knowledge about computers and a learning curve. > something they may not want to invest time and energy into.
Well, this could be said about any kind of change. Different lingo, things work differently. No pain, no gain. > also, with the > wealth of window managers out there, X is not going to behave the same way on a > different computer. But KDE is KDE, GNOME is GNOME, Blackbox is Blackbox, bash is bash, zsh is zsh. Yeah, there's more you *can* learn, but you don't *have* to learn everything. Why would a user really need to know more than one window manager, or one shell? > honestly, try getting my sister to switch to mandrake. she's using '95 right > now. even after i explained the benefits, including a speed boost, the answer > was "i don't want to spend my time on the computer. i just want it to work." So set up a box that can do what she does on Win95. Why would *she* need to spend a lot of time on it. Of course, it may be that Linux/UNIX/BSD just ain't for everybody. I have a non-techie working on an OpenBSD machine, and he gets an awful lot of work done in a day. I set up Blackbox as his window manager, 'cause it's simple. I showed him how to use 'grep' and 'less' and the manpages and 'apropos'. He says he likes it more than Windows (for getting work done, at least). -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
