On Tuesday 27 January 2004 22:13, Vince Littler wrote:
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 8:36 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
OE may be a hideous abomination, but it still behooves us to assist OE users, who may have no choice in the matter, in participating usefully on this list.
Yes, the worst situation is a broken Linux, and every wish to use a Linux program, but your only channel to help being Windows and OE.
I sort of hesitate to talk about strategy, but I do feel that a good strategy is to get people to a place where their window$ and Linux coexist in peace on the same pc and then let Linux build their confidence at their pace. For myself, I had email on OS/2 [never on M$] and when I got Linux running, email was the first thing I migrated, but I left it nearly a year before moving anything else.
This approach worked for me, and I think we should accept being on the receiving end of OE as part of the price of Linux evangelism.
Amen ! That is exactly the method via which I changed within more than a year from a totally Linux-ignorant Windows user into an enthousiastic Linux user with (hardly) any need for Windows anymore. Without the peaceful coexistence of the two on my machine I would have stayed in the W. world (I think). Cheers, -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"