On Thursday 28 August 2008 11:47:46 Lucy wrote: > On 28/08/2008, London School of Puppetry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there - I suppose my concern is not a personal need to join a group > > etc- but rather the impression an organisation makes- I think Ubuntu is > > great- and the support from the 'community'(male or female) helping me to > > make a necessity work - I am irritated by female Windows users I know who > > don't need it for games, sound and film editing and so COULD switch to > > Ubuntu but it seems such a big deal because of the atmos surrounding open > > source.an atmosphere that has never bothered me personally-I have to say!
Actually, I do use Kubuntu for film editing - I record programmes from DVB-T & DVB-S tuners with Kaffeine, edit out the adverts with DVBCut and then burn them to DVD - and I have done a bit of sound editing with Audacity. > Hmm, interesting. Why do computers create such fear in people? I've > known plenty of users who were scared of changing their basic > computing habits, never mind their OS. I've not considered the effect > that the perception of open source could have though, I thought that > was something which mainly affected large organisations. > > I'd be interested to know whether people were put off using > linux/Ubuntu because it's 'open source' and why, and what we as a > community could do to change it. I think one reason is that they think installing Linux is going to mean using the CLI for many things and having to compile programs. Something that may have been true a few years ago, but less so these days. Most of them think the Internet means Internet Explorer and wordprocessing means using MS Word. The media as a whole doesn't help matters either. As to how we could change things, I'm not sure. I would love to hold an K/Ubuntu install day around where I live, but the local Linux group has gone quiet recently. -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
