On Tuesday 16 June 2009 5:25:12 pm Andrew Sayers wrote: > I'm not usually one to stand in the way of progress, but it seems like > there are grave issues here for people migrating from other OSes. > > Migration to Linux from another OS is best done in two stages: first you > keep your old OS and switch to cross-platform apps, then you switch your > OS and keep your apps. Platform-specific defaults break the two-stage > model, requiring users to learn a new app at the same time they're > learning a new OS.
I don't actually know anybody that used OOo on Windows before they used it on Linux. Firefox, yeah...well, really, I used Mozilla (and "where's Mozilla?" was my mom's first question), but anyway... How difficult is it to switch IM clients? From what I've seen, they all have a window that lists who's online. You double click somebody in the list and a window opens. The conversation goes in the top half. You type in the bottom half and hit enter to send. OK, fine, not all...I guess you don't double-click when you use finch or naim since they're terminal based... But of the GUI ones? It's all the same. I'd rather explore the problem you demonstrate: Why do people learn to use a specific application instead of just learning how to look at menus and make decisions based on what they want to do? I suspect some of the onus is on the teachers who only teach memorized step-by-step junk instead of telling students "figure out how to..." and leaving it at that. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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