On Wednesday 22 October 2008 14:09:35 Gabriel Franco wrote:
These are the easy to convert scenario... Usually with a Live CD or a USB Distro we can convince them that the reality for linux is different now.
Having some official USB images would certainly be nice.
And showing them equivalents is no good. They don't want to work with a similar application that *might* have all the features.
We could also advertize applications more which have a Windows versions available (OOo, Firefox, Gimp, ...) so they can try before switching OS.
I think that our main focus wouldn't be try to migrate windows users to linux, but rather get the new users to start with linux.
New users that don't know Windows? From where should they come? I can only think of preloads (as in netbooks primarily).
One research here on Brazil showed that people that had a contact with Linux first (on our public schools that uses Linux on their computers)
"First time users at schools" sounds like a small fraction/niche to me. Bye, Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org