On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:34:40PM +1300, Don Gould wrote:
> > Linux & Open Source Users: I belong to the Canterbury Linux User Group > > Mailing List - It took me 10 years to learn to be productive with Outlook - > > How many installfests do you think it will take to become productive with > > Linux? I meant to make this point at the time Don first wrote it, but the answer is "none". Firstly because we are usually so rushed doing installs that we have little time to explain anything to the 'customers'. The install whizzes by, or we get stuck in dreadful partitioning//hardware probes and nothing works. Either way the customer learns little, but is hopefully sent away knowing how to boot and find the basic apps. The installfests I have been involved in were never designed to be a tutorial. Secondly because IMHO one email client is much like another, on the user interface end. You setup and account, they all ask much the same questions. You receive, you reply, you send. You sort, you curse spam, you delete html mail - its pretty much the same. Some work better, or have different icons for the buttons, but most are pretty intuitive if you have used one before. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
