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kaze wrote: > --> At this point the major problem on the desktop falls more to > --> misperception than incompatibility or ability. Education is our > key > --> here. > --> Build up a box > --> and plop it on you bosses desk. Make up a kiosk and display it > where > --> people can play with it. The next time you give a presentation > make > --> it with a linux computer and give a plug at the beginning (this > --> gives people time to ask questions and think) It's just a matter > of > --> education at this point. > --> ~Ed > > Maybe at PLUG presentations there should be an effort to at least > boot the presentation PC off Knoptix? Advocacy and perception, right? > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- > http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug I don't think you get it. I like Linux. I like it a lot. Linux is an operating system like an Archer is an airplane. If I am going to fly by myself and just practice landings and takeoffs, I may fly a Cessna 150 and not a Piper Lance. When 5 people want to come along I have to fly the Lance. I can't cram them all into the 150. When I work on my PC - selling on eBay - using proprietary programs that only exist in windows, Linux just won't fly for me. Not yet. When the day comes I'll tell Microsoft to go f*&#$*#$*& themselves and boot every Microsoft program from my platters but until I can exist in the Linux world only, that isn't going to happen. I have to live in Windows and make the best of it. I am hoping for a time when I can do EVERYTHING within Linux. I would pay for Linux versions of the software I use but the software companies don't ever plan on making Linux versions of their software. The article I posted talked about some areas of Linux where a novice user isn't going to be able to use it especially if they find themselves in situations where configuration changes become necessary. What part of this don't you all understand? ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug