Run Linux? It depends

[Wendell Cochran atrypa@xxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren says --

> . . . the vast majority of computer owners know absolutely nothing.
> Very few want to know.  Not even curious.  They certainly don't
> want to read a book or two. . . .

That is so,

> . . . Would you honestly recommend Linux to an entry-level person?

If that entry-level person is given the same pre-installed advantage
held by the vast majority, certainly.

A lawyer in Phoenix, whose shop has run for years with Linux
exclusively, reported pertinently in linux-list:

As his first secretary had no trouble in navigating the computer files
& using the installed applications, he didn't bother to tell her that
she was running Linux.

One day he overheard her on the phone telling someone that in her new
job she was using an Apple system. Bemused, he kept quiet, but
learned later that at home she knew only Microsoft.

Eventually the first secretary left, & her replacement adapted easily
if unknowingly to Linux. One day he overheard her on the phone
telling someone that in her new job she was using -- Windows.

Right: her home machine was a Mac.


Wendell Cochran
West Seattle