On Mon, 31 May 1999, Jim Ray wrote:
> I agree with Deepak. I worked Deskside Support for a power company
> running Novell/95 and they couldn't set up their own printers, or do any
> of the things that any one subscribing to this list would find simple.
> But most of the people that I did speak to of Linux sounded genuinely
> interesting during that time. I even got a handful of people to
> switch ...
If there was a poll / aptitude test of the subscribers to this group, I
believe I would come out at or near the bottom of it (so please don't have
one, Deepak! ;) ) -- in fact, (hopefully I'm exaggerating) I would
probably be one of the users asking for Jim help with the printer, unless
it was on a Mac. However, I am enthusiastic about free / Free software,
and have been using Linux for a few years. The fact that in real terms I'm
still a newbie reflects that I a) am lazy and b) have other interests that
take up my time, sometimes to my regret.
However, I work a little bit with PCs as well, and find that to my very
unschooled mind Linux is actually much friendlier to use or install than
Win 95/ 98 ... (that is, installing Red Hat 5.2; I had a lot of trouble
when I put on slackware, but that was a few years ago.) Technically-minded
people are one audience, but anyone preparing to present pro-linux
arguments to a mixed audience should also consider that some portion of
the audience will be made up of people like me. Not dumb, but easily led
astray by ambiguity in directions / help messages / error messages.
Remember us!
Timothy
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