>Your general approach of getting them interested first, by showing them the
good things in free software, is reasonable. It sounds like a great way to
get people started. I have followed this approach myself at one point. In
fact, if free software required no sacrifices in convenience, then that
approach might be good enough.
We want people to come to the free side and to stay on the free side. People
have to want to stay here in good weather or bad. If they come here expecting
good weather all the time, they will leave when they get some bad weather.
They need to come here because it is the ethical thing to do. Then there is a
chance they will stay here even if it is inconvenient for them, and even if
things don't go smoothly for them.
When I compare my computing now with those years on Winzozz, I find that I
sacrificed only one thing: proprietary video games. Games are the only thing
I can not "do" on my GNu installation (I'm talking about badass graphics
games). Other than that, no sacrifices at all, just changes of habit, I for
instance don't use flash player anymore for 60% of my web browsing X_x and
all that proprietary javascript. And so many websites with videos working on
the flash base, are pretty much inaccessible to me **within** the browser.
I now have to use other instruments for that. Like youtube-dl. This way, I
guess I lost a little bit in **convenience** but that is a very insignificant
thing when compared with the other side of the trade - the idea and its
realization that you have only free software on your lappy, and that it also
works faster, better, more reliably and with much more stability.
I also remember that the first 2 or 3 months with GNU I lacked many of the
instruments I have now, but that is just because I didn't know about them and
I still had to learn.
So, yeah, a dude that is new to GNU may initially think the OS is tough or
lacking features. It really does not lack anything, but games :)
