Dear MAQ-tanim & Ashabadi ;) Thank you for your candid comments. As you may note, I don't claim to know the right answer but sharing some opinions which in discussion with people like yourselves will hopefully improve.
Adnan, minor clarification, I don't claim XP to be user friendly or standard GUI in a design sense but you might agree most people who use it are "comfortable" with it and would rather not learn a new interface. Would it be so bad if we could get all the benefits of Linux while using an XP-like interface? It may not be a perfect solution, but a practical one. And I'm sure the person who will provide such a solution will do a great service for the community at large. I like your dubbing "XPbuntu". I will add my suggestion, "Wubuntu", which can be pronounced same hence it's philosophy while an association with Windows. You note correctly that it takes us a long time to become good at XP, or the first OS. Would I invest even a quarter of that time to learn a new one? Perhaps. Will most people? I don't think so. Most people change for practical reasons, not philosophical. Can we at least give him/her that practical option? Shahriar, I understood what Nasim meant. How about a slightly different strategy to converting overnight or even all my old files? How about I keep my old .doc files as is and simply keep on creating new .doc or .odt files using OpenOffice? Should I not at least expect the FOSS community to inform me of this option even though I may not be philosophically fully committed to changing everything overnight? I would like to see the FOSS community to serve the public without demanding full conversion. In this sense, we'd be different from some of the other fundamentalist groups in Bangldesh. But let's put all that aside as I may be wrong about my opinions. I am curious to find out from those of you who are promoting FOSS/Linux/Ubuntu in Bangladesh, what is the community's strategy to get more people to leave Windows/proprietary software? I had hoped a central website would have some information easily but there seems to be only a placeholder page at http://www.linux.org.bd/ and is being used solely for Google Apps by the Bangladesh Linux Users Alliance (which probably doesn't have incoming mail service anymore). And http://www.ubuntu-bd.org/ 's hosting accounting has been suspended. Not sure why there isn't a website for either but more importantly, let's re-awaken these giants and I would like to help whether in providing hosting, web development and/or content editing. Let's serve the public to become more aware of their technology options. Shumon -- Ubuntu Bangladesh https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
