Re: Moving to Linux

[Dan Kaspi]

Hi,
Frankly, I prefer the "Two step approach"-
Well ,after reading the (quite many) responses and talking to him this seems 
to be what he is convinced to do.  (at least at work, where he cannot afford 
himself spending time trying to solve technical problems in linux where an 
immediate solution is needed) .

Since using application is presumably the easier part of  moving to linux,
I also try to  to convince him to try to install Colinux under windows, so 
that he can play a bit with the command line,starting services, a little 
shell,installing packages (apt-get,yum,...) etc. (I do not know if this will 
enable him to
test XWinsows ; When I tried to install colinux under windows
about a year ago, I found out that using the XWindows  under colinux (there 
were some methods
to do that in that time) was not so good in terms of  performance under my 
2.4 Celeron processor;
However,it could be that thing had changed since then).

Regards,
Dan Kaspi

From: Shoshannah Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Dan Kaspi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: linux-il@linux.org.il
Subject: Re: Moving to Linux
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 11:29:17 +0300
On 08/05/2005, at 15:40, Dan Kaspi wrote:
 I tried to convince somebody I know to move to Linux at home and
        at work. I am myself an advocate user of Linux at work and at home.
<snip>
He argued that migrating to Linux will takes time because you need to 
learn
many new things; The security solution of XP (the XP firewall) and
the free antispyware sw are enough for him; And he isn't convinced
that it is worth to inverst time in migating to Linux.

Are there other Linux benefits which I can pose for moving to Linux ?
(except the idea of moving to open and free source).
Frankly, I prefer the "Two step approach"- don't attempt to convince users 
to jump onto linux at once (which takes time, changing habits and coping 
with a learning curve), but rather get the person to use as much FLOSS 
applications as possible.
That way, a future transition to Linux will be much faster and easier (many 
applications will be the same, many habits won't need to change), and many 
times the user himself will ask about moving to Linux after using FLOSS for 
a while.
And if he doesn't? Well, this isn't all or nothing. He will still be using 
FLOSS software, and spreading freedom.

Also, from I have seen, having users move to Linux without them really 
wanting to is a great way to create "anti" and "Linux is  horrible" 
attitudes, which can close the door for Linux for a long time (and you 
never know where the person's influence will reach).

So, to sum up, IMO the most effective Linux evangelism is soft and patient, 
not a hard sell.
---
Shoshannah Forbes
http://www.xslf.com

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