On 04/30/2010 09:47 AM, Piyush P Kurur wrote:
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:41:25PM +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
On Thursday 29 April 2010 10:10 PM, dave reisner wrote:
I don't use GNOME (I don't have it installed, switched to KDE completely).
As far as I have seen, the moment people hear the name 'Linux' it reminds them of the console. They think, Linux sucks in GUI sometimes even they think it has no GUI. So this is important. Why do you think other mainstream distros like Ubuntu and Fedora spend so much time on Eye Candy ?
Wait for their machines to be infected by worms all over which it will. Partition their disk and put for them a clean GNU/Linux or BSD system (Linux if they are into skyping etc). Use XFCE as wm. Not Gnome/KDE, its too heavy and its slugginess will put people of.
Few more points
(1) Make sure that auto mounting of devices happen. (2) Add icons for things like skype/ekiga/pidgin/firefox etc
No jazzy desktop effects are required.
This strategy had worked wonderfully with people who are not "power" windoze users (parents, uncles, aunts, in-laws, grand mother etc). Desktop effects only scare them off. For the power users you might need compiz and all that. But then after conversion introduce them to the tiling window manager like xmonad and programms like screen, firefox + vimperator etc.
Regards
ppk
They have good systems with RAM over 1 GB and disk over 100 GB, so that's not an issue. Thanks for the tips about automount, etc. Automount is the easiest to configure in GNOME/KDE, I have suffered a lot without automount in XFCE and LXDE, tried the fixes from wiki but I don't know where I went wrong, so finally I migrated to KDE. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु !