It has been sometime back that i managed to switch one heavily application oriented power user to Linux. This is a short narration of that experience.
it was hp laptop, and an old one on which the user was using p!rated version of windows. the problem was compounded because user's laptop used to get frequently infected with all sorts of things due to heavy travel (*g*imping :-) when i tried to switch that to Mandriva, it could not detect few things and failed to boot correctedly... and i was running short of time... so gave ubuntu a shot and things looked ok except the less RAM. Also i did not know ubuntu much so helping user with issues was a problem, so i switched that laptop to Kubuntu and added 1 GB additional RAM. It has been six months now and user is happily learning trick of making fRee and oPen sOurce sofTware work and infact has started teaching me few things of OpenOffice tricks and tips when compared to MSOffice. All infections issues are sorted no longer existence and user's productive time is more than doubled... No issues whatsoever... the user now spreads message of Linux everywhere (s)he visits... which is really wonderful :-) as circle of influence of user being noteworthy... user runs an ngo effort, so i could not convince about status of his copy of windows except for problem solving :-) till i could convince to switching Linux for productive downtime.... -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [email protected] for mailing instructions.
