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jay <jloden at toughguy.net> wrote:

>Out of curiosity, how many of you on the list have switched friends or family 
>members onto Linux? 
>
>I for one have gotten my mother and my girlfriend both on Linux, and they're 
>both quite happy with it, despite not knowing pretty much anything about 
>computers. ?Do you all have similar experiences? ?Thoughts? Comments? 
>
>I find that for people that aren't gamers, or installing lots of software or 
>otherwise dependent on windows software, linux has worked out great. ?My mom 
>does nothing but surf the web, write the occasional document, and read email. ?
>I'm just curious if you all have similar experience with "evangelizing" Linux 
>to your friends and coworkers and family. 
>
>-Jay
>
>P.S. The following comes from my girlfriend and I over IM the other night, 
>after she rebooted her computer (I gave her Linux and winXP as a safety net 
>in case she had trouble using Linux, since I had no time to teach her 
>anything about Linux after I installed it):
>
>Me: are you in Windows now then? 
>Her: no
>Me: oh?
>Her: it let me pick
>Me: yeah, but I didn't think you'd pick Linux (lilo boots XP by default)
>Her: why not?
>Her: it's easy to use
>Me: hehehe
>Her: and i don't get a million error messages
>Me: HAHAHA
>Her: windows don't just close themselves for no reason
>Her: i haven't had to restart because of freezing once
>Her: why mess with something that actually works correctly?
>Her: know what i mean?
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