The first PIM I used with Linux was Evolution.

Because I was already proficient with Outlook too, I was proficient with
Evolution after the 1 or 2 minute setup procedure.

Regards, Robert

Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen.

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent:   Friday, 27 February 2004 3:38 p.m.
To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:        Re: Thank You Team: Over Load



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]>

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