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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My roommate is a Windows newbie who is pretty a smart guy. He has taken some interest in Linux (no thanks to me). I was thinking about setting up his machine as a dual boot system as an experiment, but the problem is that he uses to computer for his digital camera, talks to his GF with the yahoo messenger webcam/voice feature, spends a great deal of time on Kazaaa lite (movies and music), plays a windows games, makes a ton of music CD's, listens to internet radio (including launch.yahoo.com), uses the Google toolbar, and also uses office. He likes some of my KDE/FluxBox themes and would probably go for the idea of being used for an experiment, but the problem is that I could at best only replace some of the functionality of Windows. Linux has made some progress over the last couple years, but the way people use computers has also changed over the last couple years.