On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Neelesh Gurjar <neel....@gmail.com> wrote: > Linux Addiction !!! > > I work in NGO @ Panvel. Here I switched one department (20-25 Users) 0n > Linux 3 years back. They use OpenOffice 2.2, Tally 7.2 (Linux Ver), Kmail, > Firefox and Write & Font software with using Wine. > > Today When I ask in one department in organization that "Can we switch over > to Windows? As some body is donating Licensing cost for those PCs" All users > said "No, We can't work on Windows now. We need only Linux"...
This is really great. Kudos to the work you've put in to achieve that. > They got addicted to Linux now..... :) Addictions are always bad :P Jokes aside, how is the daily management of these computers done in your absence now? Do they have a full time sys admin to look after the place? Also, has this effort been documented so people wanting to replicate will find it easier, IIRC you had to deal with quite a few old PC's with varying configuration. Also how were the steps taken to move these people to linux in the first place. And at what points did you have to face resistance. > People say that Linux is not user friendly and cannot be used for Desktops > for general users. > Now I can surely say, if management plans to use Linux in offices, users & > admins work hard on it without having windows in mind then they can switch > to Linux. IMHO, it's just about familiarity with the OS that matters these days. Definitely end users can adjust if the system administrators are competent with their work, can get the end users to work with linux with the users having to get into minimum of fuss and the end user is willing/forced to adopt Linux. Replace system admin with some technically competent person, in case of individuals. -- They are relatively good but absolutely terrible. -- Alan Kay, commenting on Apollos -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
