Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[brian.jones3@xxxxxxxxxx (Brian Jones)]

OK, I don't know which will be the OS of the masses, I don't know how
much easier to use Linux will get, I don't know how much more buggy M$
stuff will get, I don't know who will win the browser war. While I do
care about the future I do not care much to speculate about it. The
speculation just reminds me of sports fans in a pub who will fill all
available time to argue about the outcome of a game months before the
teams have been picked.

I would prefer just to see everyone push Linux a tiny bit and see what
happens:

* Give old dists to friends and give them all the support you can. Avoid
the "What ? You've had two days & you've not written a kernel driver yet
?" style that is all too common.

* Walk them gently through the installation.

* Point them to helpful lists like this one.

* When you find good evidence of the superiority of Linux over M$
software, send a short message with a URL - people are generally good at
this which saves us a good deal of bandwidth and mail trawling.

* If need be, let's have a pure speculation mailing list (I guess there
are some already) that I can then avoid.

I have a handful of friends now using SuSE, some from other dists, some
from outside Linux & while that is no Gates-beating scale of conversion
they are happy and I am happy (because I've learnt new things).

I will continue to view the extra cost of a disribution to be a subsidy
towards making Linux easier to install & use and just see what happens
over time.

Brian.
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