Linked by Charles Williams on Mon 7th Apr 2003 03:17 UTC
We have all heard the horror stories of how GNU/Linux is difficult, if not almost impossible, as far as general desktop usability is concerned. In particular, there seems to be a continuous stream of gripes printed across the Internet, from Microsoft Windows users who wish, or have tried, to migrate to GNU/Linux, yet gave up in frustration. But what happens when complete computer newbies are introduced to GNU/Linux? By computer newbies, I am referring to those who have no computer experience whatsoever, in either a Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix or other environment.
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>> unless they know somebody else who knows how to solve Linux problems (like the lady who was raving about its stability), they're probably going to be shit out of luck.
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You might be surprised! Even the small schools are teaching linux now, something that wasn't happening just a few years back. I was pleasantly surprised the other day to see my next door neighbour using SUSE! It turned out he had tried RedHat as well.