I have managed to convince a number of Clients, Friends and Contacts who are considered "Non-Techie" to do a Video Broadcast chat with me about what they perceive as their needs and concerns are in relation to Open source and computer usage. The first one occured last Monday and Suzy Miller of Certainshops took time to highlight a few thoughts and concerns about Ubuntu. She will be coming back in 8 weeks to talk about her experiences in using Ubuntu and other Open Source applications to run her business. As a non techie what she liked was the apparent lack of "effort" required in getting things done. Not worrying about Virus and Trojans and Malware just selfinstalling and ruining her day was a big plus to her. She also liked the idea that the Hardrive could be swapped around PCs without the whole Nagging reinstall driver issue which deters many Windows support people. I know DaveMorris and Gazzak watched the last show and unfortunately the recording failed to appear at the other end however I am planning to do at least four talks and if I can find more volunteers to join in then I will do more of them. Im not sure if I have answered the question but I can confirm that for many non techies Ubuntu 7.04 is the most ready they have been for the Linux Desktop in a long time.
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