Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1587 mails)

[kingr@xxxxxxxxxx (Richard King)]

I basically would agree with the comments  below - I've tinkered with Linux
for a year or two, and have been highly motivated to do so - yet I still
battle at times, and there is so much I still do not know.  I use Linux
purely because of its reliability and flexibility to do things that I need
to do with the Internet.  If it takes me hours of fiddling to find out how
to do what I want, its worth it because once I figure it out and get it
working I know it will keep on working....  And yet I sit in a situation
where I have 60 users on both Win 3.11 and Win 95, who constantly badger me
because they've lost the network printer, or in MSWord the toolbar they need
has disappeared, or somone over the weekend has been fiddling with control
panel, have read their email, or have installed virus-infected games etc
etc..  So Windows users can also get themselves into a whole lot of trouble.

I work with journalists who basically use the PC as a glorified typewriter
(some of them would dearly like to go back to a typewriter!)   and now that
I've seen KDE, I really wonder if - in my situation - it might be worth
setting them up with a system that will hopefully give  less problems when
there's a glitch with the network, and where I can give them a simple text
editor etc - and give them their own personal login/privacy - but where they
perhaps can't really get themselves into quite the same trouble as with
Windows....  ?  Or should I wait another year or two....?

Richard King
Johannesburg
<A HREF="http://www.channelafrica.org";><A HREF="http://www.channelafrica.org</A">http://www.channelafrica.org</A</A>>

-----Original Message-----
From: wizard01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <wizard01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
Date: 28 November 1998 04:43
Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Help in Norfolk, Va

Personally I'd recommend AGAINST linux for a person who it
totally new to computers at this time. Perhaps in a few more years,
but not at present. Too easy to get themselves in trouble with their
system and totally lost.
Also, they'd tend to become discouraged by the learning curve as
well as lack of software titles available "off the shelf". You'd be
getting calls about "WHY can't I run this new neat-o-keen 3D
packman game I just bought"...
Now as a SECONDARY OS, I'd recommend linux with the caution
about the learning curve. Let them see the super easy idiot OS of
windows and a REAL OS operating in their native modes. One a bit
more difficult to use/configure but blazingly fast, the other (well, we
already know about windows)...

>
> I have a friend and his wife who are new to computers and would like to
> start them on the right path with Linux. Can anybody help?
>
> Juanito
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