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Adam · 11-05-2006, 01:57 AM

I've never been able to get a non-technical person to understand Linux... It seems like it is something that a person has to be introduced to slowly, simply because many of the tools are more powerful and less forgiving than the ones created for Windows.

If you can pull it off, though, more power to you. This world needs more Linux users. Perhaps you can try to develop a set of handy quick reference pages, or FAQ's so that you don't get as many calls in the middle of the night when someone has chmod'd a file and can't use it any more.

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Adam Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Logan, UT Posts: 357	I've never been able to get a non-technical person to understand Linux... It seems like it is something that a person has to be introduced to slowly, simply because many of the tools are more powerful and less forgiving than the ones created for Windows. If you can pull it off, though, more power to you. This world needs more Linux users. Perhaps you can try to develop a set of handy quick reference pages, or FAQ's so that you don't get as many calls in the middle of the night when someone has chmod'd a file and can't use it any more. __________________ People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. --Salma Hayek My blog: Adam's Peace