-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 02:29 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Charlie M. schrieb am Sat, 04 Oct 2003 13:16:01 -0600: > > If I start talking anything more "geekish" than that these people go > > TILT. > > > > Then they run. > > > > But you'll never educate most people because they just want a tool to > > use. They don't want to be educated, and stop listening as soon as > > anything of that nature enters the conversation. > > It's the old difference between the 2 guys who had to study a certain > physical law in order to solve a problem. > > 1. guy goes to the library and asks for an english translation of the > original book written in German. There is none. He asks a German > friend to translate the chapters about the part which is interesting > for him. He receives the translation, reads the necessary parts and > goes back to his original task and solves the problem. > > 2. guy goes to language school, learns German and then reads the entire > book in the original version. Then he goes back to his task..... > > Lets not look at the efficiency or the necessary timespan for the second > guy to learn the language. They both have the same task at hand but > totally different interests. > > Next week I'm going to meet a couple of young people. One guy asked me > where he could get some info about Linux. He and his friends are fed up > with some M$ issues and would like to try something else. > > So, as they all are living in the same town as I do, we are going to > meet next week and I'll give them a short overview. I'll take my laptop > with me and will show some flashy things (Have to install xmms and > mplayer until then!). A pity I can't have the new 9.2 by then. > > They mentioned Red Hat and SuSE as the distributions they heard of. I'll > show them Mandrake. Let's see what comes out of it. And if your theory > about the "Geek!" crying users at the sight of a CLI is really true. > > wobo
I hope they don't run. I'll be modifying my presentations and methods to try and overcome some of the natural resistance I expect to encounter. I recognize that the onus is on me to make things appear as easy as they actually are, and I've already gone back to the pattern that forces the potential refugee to ask more than once before I'll do anything more than provide links to information. If they don't have even that much perseverance they probably would never switch anyway. Unfortunately it seems there's a lot of "Linux is cool so get somebody to show" going on around here. Weeding out the dilettantes like me and the people that are actually willing to invest some time and skull sweat is becoming a problem. (-: As long as I'm not causing people to run screaming into the night, I guess I'm not doing the Mandrake cause any harm. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 14:37:43 up 14 days, 3:58, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.07, 0.08 The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity. -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/fzGxG11CaRuZZSIRAtCFAKCEjWr5UTM1R1XxsUVM/OEUOrlG8ACgjDoV 5Oy0NNVinMrQUVrTKL/H3Iw= =5jX7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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