Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
rbw wrote:
Help? They don't use help, they just stick the install disk in and
select the defaults...
Training? Never been to any...
WRONG! And *this* is the key battle.
They have been to training. Every single person has been to Windows
training. Generally this brainwa^Wtraining has been at school or college.
Also, everybody who asks for help at work is getting ambient Windows
training. Everybody who has to use Windows at work is getting Windows
training.
There is a reason any class I teach from now on is going to be using
Linux, dammit.
Windows "Just Works!"
Well, unfortunately, that's partially true.
I recently gave a big, honking workstation to a friend's daughter so
that she could do some graphic arts stuff. AMD64, 3GHz processor, big
mem, huge drive, running Linux.
Gimp, fine. Inkscape, fine. IM, fine.
Web video -- problem.
What applications does she need to replace?
Cinelerra and Kino are both good video editors and the results can be
streamed with something like Video Lan Client. Conversion to various
formats can be done with mencoder or transcode, but I don't know if
there is a GUI wrapper for them.
Or does she need to convert video to Adobe Flash? Not sure if WINE
handles that yet but it might be an option.
Gus
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