Oded Shimon wrote:
It's much much more than that. People are scared of change, they are scared and revoke anything that is different than the "norm", you could make a PERFECT windows clone in KDE somehow, and let people use that, telling em it's windows and they'd be happy, give them the exact thing and tell them it's NOT windows but something else, they'd revoke it, saying it's horrible, they don't want it, etc etc. My sister refused to switch to firefox, i kept trying to encourage her and my parents over and over and they simply kept refusing. I installed firefox, removed the internet explorer icon and put the an internet explorer icon on firefox, imported bookmarks, and let them use firefox for quite a while without knowing it. it was fine for about a month, till at some point they realized it was firefox when some site blocked them (israeli sites, blech), and then they started yelling at me like mad that i gave them that horrendous prog and demanded internet explorer back..
It's not nice to cheat your relatives :-) I understand why people don't like changing. You have to learn so much to use a computer, people don't want to start all over from the beginning. Especially for non-geeks it's so difficult. If they get used to something, they don't want to change. They also don't want to be different than most of their friends. If most of their friends are using something, they will use it too. That's why people prefer Windows, MS Office, IE etc. It's easy to use, everyone use it, and they got used to it. They don't want to get used to anything else. Best Regards, Uri Even-Chen Speedy Net Raanana, Israel. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +972-9-7715013 Website: www.uri.co.il -------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
