On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:24:01 -0500 Ken Heard <k...@heard.name> dijo: >John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> Windows users (especially) are terrified of malware. As well they >> ought to be, considering the OS they run. My CD with Ubuntu-32 >> written on it with a sharpie did not impress them. But later I >> acquired some Ubuntu CDs from Ubuntu nicely printed. With these I >> finally had several people try the CD, and two are now running Linux. > >So it is all in the packaging? Your sharpie they did not trust, but a >CD made by you but with the pretty Ubuntu picture put there by you on >the same CD download as the one with the sharpie they did trust. How >naive can people be? I was once working with a graduate student on a project using her Windows computer. In the course of our work I couldn't help mention Linux. She said "I'd love to try it, but I can't because my husband used up all the memory." I do not believe it is possible to underestimate the computer knowledge of the masses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101203100023.1ce58...@mailhost.pdx.edu
