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@impop.bellatlantic.net <wizard01@impop.bellatlantic.net> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com <suse-linux-e@suse.com> 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?
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