On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:24:12 -0800 Mike Connors <[email protected]> dijo:
>I'll be honest, I would never have expected it to just work that >painlessly. I was just researching if I could connect my Nokia phone >to my Linux box to get photos/files off of it. Of course there's no >Nokia suite for Linux. But a few people said Linux just sees it as a >mass storage device and you interact it with link any other. Although, >I'm a bit skeptical about the getting it connected via Bluetooth. These days, as long as you are using a reasonably recent desktop-oriented distro your bluetooth stuff should "just work." That is, you do have to set it up, but the process is a GUI that is dead simple. I have a bluetooth phone and it automatically connects as soon as I turn the phone into discovery mode. Nautilus even pops up a browser window. And the JPGs on the phone appear with a thumbnail icon in the browser window. The phone also has a USB port, which works equally well, but it's faster to use bluetooth than to get up, walk across the room, and root around for a USB cable with the right connectors. >I think there's still this notion that if you want to use Linux as >your daily computer you'll waste your life away tinkering w. it to get >it to work w. common peripherals. Whenever I am pitching Linux I am always careful to point out that Windows gives you more options than the MacOS, and Linux way more than Windows, but you have to pay a price in terms of time spent fiddling. I have also discovered that it's usually a hard sell. I have had much better luck by getting them to install OOo on their Windows or Mac computer first. It's a baby step that gets them thinking about the benefits of FOSS. I am thinking of the possibility of holding free classes on OOo at someplace like PCC where it will get advertised in their catalog. I assume PCC has a computer-equipped classroom available for such things. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
