In a word, yes. But I think "we" (the Linux community) got lazy as well. For example, http://atitlanlife.com/2014/10/11/linux-in-panajachel/ is an article I wrote about non-geek linux use for a non-geek site. What I wrote is no biggie and no surprise for people who know they are running linux but it is the type of thing we need to be saying repeatedly "in the news".
When I first moved to San Antonio Palapó I had just bought a tiny used Dell laptop. While it came from the U.S., it came with some software with a Spanish name -- "vista" as I remember -- which pretty much filled the 16GB SSD. I put peppermint Linux on it and it is now my test computer for setting up wireless links and such. At the time (six months ago) there were thousands of these systems available cheap. How cheap? 10 for $550. I considered buying 20 of them and giving them away to school kids. (San Antonio Palopó is a small indigenous community. Extra money is not something families have here. ( http://casasderocio.com/geek-info/ gives you some info from the contest we ran last year and there are other pages there with more info on the town and more photos.) Even if you could afford a computer, Internet connections beyond a couple of Internet cafes are few and far between. Untimately I didn't do the buy because I wasn't ready to be the Linux consultant for all the kids. Not because it is not fun but because I have too many other things to get done in the short term at the property. But, there are a lot of us Linux geeks out here. If we want to promote Linux, we need to talk about it where non-geeks are reading and buying some computers for some kids would certainly help. On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:58 PM, ac <a...@main.me> wrote: > > Obviously, CNN 'reporters' are lazy and this reflects in the steadily > decline of their content quality (in fact i dropped my cnn tech rss > feed today - it has eventually become a waste of time as 'news' is > always old and many times just plain silly/useless propaganda..) but > anyway, the question: > > regarding Linux : are more of the general public becoming ignorant > because our Linux communities have stopped being news or interesting? > > > http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/04/tech/mci-endless-computer-desktop-pc-emerging-markets/ > Not only has similar ideas been done (more than 10 times the past 10+ > years and $169 with no screen is too expensive but if you use Linux and > a desktop that you did not develop yourself, you should give credit > where it is due!! ) > > AND... to write: " Chrome requires connectivity, and Linux is too hard to > use" > > and then, in the next paragraph: "Endless eventually came up with a > Linux-based operating system equipped with a new and easier-to-use > interface" > > *sigh* > > -- > apologies, for the cross posting, to the few people on SLL that are also > subscribed to blug - i added two extra sentences, just for you :) > -- Phil Hughes P.O. Box 55, Panajachel, Solola 07010 Guatemala nica...@gmail.com
