>Yes a good topic, but I'm not sure how interested our "home" users will
be?
>I would have thought it great for a home user, if they have 2 PC's ...
If only around 40% of households have a PC, how many have 2 or more? How
many of these are non-Windoze users?
>its just i get the impression we have many members with only one computer
and limited budgets.
My impression also. And probably a number of those are looking at Linux
because they can't afford M$ software; let alone Windoze, Linux AND another
PC. How many turned up at the InstalFest with a completely empty machine
because they had Windoze on another at home?
>OTOH we may have had enough newbi stuff for a while.
Have I missed something? I thought that there had only been one CLUG
meeting since the Fest, and we were enthralled by 3 1/2 hours of CLI.
(Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed it, but you did lose four during the
meeting. I looked around in the second half when I sat further back on the
side and I noticed a large audience of blank faces. It was also pretty
obvious that questions and comments only came from 'the committee'. You
were too engrosed to notice 'the silent majority'. They probably aren't yet
enough 'with it' to know what they want, so I'm speaking up on their behalf!)
>I'd also suggest that many of the people attending our meetings are
"enthusiasts" rather than outright "newbies" and are likely to have
multiple machines at home.
One can be enthusiastic, but still be a newbie. I know! The terms are not
mutually exclusive. (Comment on multiple machines as above. I have a few
but have no call their being in wedlock.)
>And I suspect more people are setting up small networks at home as well,
perhaps with one machine in the lounge and one in each child's bedroom -
I rather suspect that in the real world people with children would be
grateful to be able to afford one PC.
>maybe I was thinking too hard about the newbie constituency (who
have had quite an emphasis lately).
Emphasis? Again; what have I missed?!
You've just had an InstallFest. Lots of potential new Linux users. If you
don't follow up NOW with something for them you'll loose 80% of them - and
then you'll wonder why you went a whole day without even a cup of coffee!
Peter.
(I'm all right, Jack. I speak up and the noisy wheel gets the grease.)
