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Originally Posted by Zach  I can't even get nontechnical people to use Windows right, there's no way I could get them to learn how to use any form of Linux. Good luck with that! :P |
My girlfriend once asked if she could check her email, and I told her to go ahead. She didn't even try to do anything before saying "I don't know how to use Linux".
"Well, do you know how to use a web browser?"
"Yes..."
"Firefox?"
"Yes."
"Ok. Here you go. Congratulations! You're using Linux."
Frankly, people are used to Windows because it was how the computer came. If computers were sold with GNU/Linux pre-installed, you'd find that those people would be fine once they learned how to use the computer, and switching to Windows would be hard.
People have introduced GNU/Linux to grandparents and watched them become the tech support for all of their Windows-using friends.
It's not hard. It's different.