At 12:22 AM 11/14/2005 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 22:22 -0500, Marc Collin wrote:
Le 13 Novembre 2005 22:21, Steven T. Hatton a écrit :
On Sunday 13 November 2005 09:52 pm, John Boyle wrote:
Don't try to get the average secratary to try Linux. It's not ready for that kind of use.
why not?
there are already some secretary in the world who use it
We need to get the technically able people to use it.
College students, systems administrators, etc.
primary, college... student use it
We need better exposure at the grade-school and high-school levels. However, the teachers seem to be the ones doing IT in these settings, so they stick with M$, as that is what they are using at home, or so it seems.
Mike
I am reluctant to get involved in this kind of OT discussion, but I have to butt in. Certainly the high-school crowd--those who take the math and physics classes, anyway--are capable of doing Linux-- very likely far more capable than I am. But they are very likely to say--why? It can't do movies, and everything is a hassle, and it doesn't do the games I want, and XP does all that I need to do, so why? (And any honest user will tell you that XP is pretty solid. Really.) (They are not facing what I suspect will be annual upgrade fees for an MS OS. I'm just waiting for that shoe to drop. Or the price of the MS Office software.) So, why? Well? --doug -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.0/167 - Release Date: 11/11/2005