Spreading the Word During the Holiday Season

[Andrew Hunter]

On Wednesday 27 December 2006 20:35, Darren Zawislak wrote:
> Tee Jay Rosene wrote:
> > I hope everyone here on Ubuntu Canada has enjoyed the Holiday Season.
> > Such a
> > season is a great opportunity to spread the word about Ubuntu amongst
> > family
> > and friends, and I was just wondering if anyone has done any of this over
> > the holiday season, and how successful this has been?
>
> Hello,
>
> New Ubuntu user here. Just partitioned my hard drive and loaded the
> software today. Nice.
>
> A friend told me about Ubuntu at a Christmas party after I was
> expressing concerns about what I was reading about Vista. I am not a
> programmer, network specialist, etc. Just a very good Windows/Office
> user who builds computers on the side.  So this will be a interesting
> experiment. It is very hard to turn away from my stable XP Pro
> environment.

I can understand that.

My sugestion is try a native ubuntu installation with a spare machine. That 
way, there is nothing to worry about.

> Decisions about which software to view and archive my 
> numerous e-mail accounts, etc, are all up in the air. I guess it is like
> giving up a security blanket. Wait a minute, did I mention security and
> Windows in the same sentence?  Oops, sorry!
>
> --
> There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and
> those who don't. Duh.

-- 
"First, God created idiots. But that was just for practise, then he made 
school boards."
   -Mark Twain 
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