Greetings from a new list member

Paul Gear paul at libertysys.com.au
Tue May 12 01:38:15 BST 2009


Morgan Storey wrote:
> I find it is best to go slow with those not overly enthused.
> My missus ran Xp for a long time, and wanted office so I installed open
> office, wanted to edit photos so I install the Gimp, wanted a multi-chat
> client, so I installed Gaim (as it was known at the time), and Clamwin for
> av. Then she started having driver issues. So I said you are already using
> all Open source apps, except for the OS, they will work better in Linux. She
> has been using Ubuntu now for just over 3 years.
>
> Mother-in-law quickly followed suit when she saw the fancy screen savers and
> the ease of use.

It worked this way for my wife, too.  We just recently got rid of her
Windows VM in VMware and she is 100% Ubuntu now.  :-)  Just keep showing
them cool stuff and they eventually seem to come around.

Paul
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