On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 22:17, Josh Coates wrote: > <heresy> > this might be heresy, but i honestly don't think it's a good use of time to > try and 'convert' non-techy people to linux. linux is an os for servers, > engineers and hobbyists. > > i could care less if my mom has linux running on her desktop, and in fact, i > don't think i would wish that upon her, or anyone else who is a non-techy. > </heresy>
On the other hand, I've heard so many people complaining lately about walking into their home office two days after hooking up their cable internet and seeing a screen full of porn, or finding their hard drive is full of porn images (and likely serving them up to others), or being plagued with viruses, or even just the annoying netsend pop-ups, I'm aghast. I've been using primarily Linux at home for the past couple years and I guess I've been blissfully unaware of such problems. Those things I'm sure I wouldn't wish upon anyone. Now, I haven't yet started recommending to my parents, sisters, and in-laws to switch over to Linux, but I'm oh so tempted every time I spend a couple hours cleaning up their computers for them. I'm sure I would still be providing plenty tech support if they all switched to Linux, definitely a lot more than I do now until they got used to things, but I think I would enjoy supporting Linux and it's difficulties much more than these nasty other problems they've experienced. Maybe someday... Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
