On 1/22/10, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
That was, more or less, my entry into using Linux. There's no particular reason I needed to use Linux and still isn't. But over time, I started using more and more FOSS, for important and trivial functions, and found it worked well, usually better than the commercial or free/share-ware I had used previously. So I got into the habit of seeking out FOSS options deliberately, and went so far as to purge all non-MS closed-source apps from my Windows system. From there, deciding I may as well try an open-source OS was a relatively small (since most apps I was using by that point were cross-platform*) and logical step. Michael M. *The hardest things to give up were XNews (free-as-in-beer Windows newsreader) and foobar2000 (FOSS but Windows only). _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
