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Gordon Henderson wrote:
Just last week when I had finally sorted my new computer and distro. As I used to teach Publisher I decided to have a look at Scribus. Still just playing with it so far.On Sun, 1 May 2011, Neil Winchurst wrote:And, by the way, with reference to Gordon's grandfather who is 74 and cannot take to Linux, well I am 78 and managing fine thanks.I'm glad you're getting on with it, but when did you start? (and why?)
Know what you mean. Some people that I know are like that so I just leave them to it. Their loss.However, it was my father in-law, not Grandfather. My Grandfather, had he still been alive would have embraced Linux with open arms. FiL chose the path of least resistance, having been using Win since the year dot and been brainwashed into it in the corp-rat/government land he worked in until retirement. It was what he was used to. I ended up spending a whole day with him going through Win7 and trying to make it work for him. I tried to get him interested in Linux - I told him it was free, told him that OpenOffice was free (He was already using it on his old XP box!), but he still wasn't interested. I installed FireFox for him, with Adblock & flash block - but when my back was turned, he installed Chrome - as that had been faster on his old XP box (His new Win7 PC is a quad core intel i7 box! It's not slow, and FF4 flies under Win!) Some people are like that.
I have reached the stage now where I am happy to help those who come to me to ask about free source software, but I have more or less given up on trying to push it.
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