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On 24/09/12 19:52, Rob Beard wrote: > On 24/09/12 16:39, Neil Winchurst wrote: >> Yesterday we went to RHS Rosemoor near Torrington for the Food Fair. >> Afterwards we were in the shop and I was looking at a photo book. An >> elderly man near me commented on being interested in computers himself >> and that he used Photo Shop to work on his photos. >> > > Ahh so not an easy Linux convert then unless he's running an old > version of Photoshop. > >> So of course I told him that I did not use Windows but a free OS called >> Linux. He had never heard of it. When I explained a little he seemed >> rather bemused. He was convinced that if you wanted to use a computer >> you *had* to use Windows and that nothing else worked! (I wonder where >> he got that idea.) >> > > That's a sad fact as you seem to have pointed out :-) > >> So I explained a bit more and he said 'but you can't use the internet of >> course or send emails'. More explanations. Eventually he went on his way >> looking very surprised. >> > > So he'd been given miss-information then :-D > >> This encounter brought home to me just how far we are still from getting >> people to understand that there is a choice out there. There is still a >> long way to go to get that message out there. >> > > I have a positive story. A couple of years ago I tried to get a > friend to use Ubuntu on his desktop dual booting with Vista. He was > one of those "I don't like change" types and wanted to stick with > Vista. He ended up buying a laptop and leaving the desktop with his > parents when he moved out (about 2 years ago now I think). > > Anyway, I had a message from his brother the other day asking me how > to get an Epson printer working on Ubuntu. It turns out they're now > running Ubuntu on their PC, I didn't have any involvement on the > install so I can only assume another friend or family member suggested > it to them. :-) > > Recently I've managed to convert my brother-in-law onto Linux Mint as > his laptop (running Vista) caught a virus. As far as I know he's > happy with Mint as it does what he wants (mainly Internet and Facebook > games). I'm going to be showing Mint to my sister-in-law tomorrow too > as she too has a laptop which is running like a dog. I figured leave > her with a USB stick or DVD with it on so she can have a play and see > how much better it is than Windows :-) > > Hopefully with the launch of the Raspberry Pi it's going to get more > people interested in Linux. I've seen so many comments and heard so > many stories of people picking up Raspberry Pi's and to learn Perl and > Linux, despite being able to do that on a standard PC, so maybe those > people playing with a Pi will maybe look at Linux on a desktop or > laptop PC too (maybe someone should release a version of Debian > renamed to Raspbian for x86 :-D). > > Rob > > Rob > > Sounds good, hopefully more people locally (torbay and area) will end up with raspberry Pis and maybe even increase attendance at lug meets, I gave 3 flyers out sunday and at least one of the children Igave them to, seemed interested in getting one. So i printed a few more off today and will give to our under 12's Tuesday. Paul -- -- http://drupal.zleap.net skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 http://www.raspberrypi.org http://www.ubuntu.com -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq