On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 06:42:34PM +0800, Genfil Villahermosa wrote: > I am also planning to start an internet cafe. Linux will be good > choice for an OS. Do you think people will accept it? ( most of them > know only Windows)
>From personal experience observing my schoolmates, and from stories relayed to the list awhile back by my cousin Dido (Rafael Sevilla), a lot of people actually go to Internet cafes to play games. I'm sure Wine can run a growing number of Windows games on GNU/Linux, but there will be a speed penalty and this will hurt. If you're sure that you will only cater to people who will surf the Internet, chat, and do basic office/productivity suite work, then GNU/Linux with Mozilla/Galeon/Konqueror/Opera/etc, X-Chat/bitchx/etc and OpenOffice.org should work fine. I wouldn't be surprised if a number of people will freak/panic without the familiar Microsoft Office interface, though. And this isn't taking wierd documents that don't get imported properly into consideration, yet. I don't mean to be pessimistic about this, but I guess we'll need to see it to know if it works. Success stories will DEFINITELY be welcome. :) --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : http://jijo.free.net.ph Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
