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To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : TOM WALKER
Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 11:49 am

AA> GH> To stay on topic ("Windows") I argued for Linux at the Senior
AA> GH> Center computer lab ... with a GUI setup just like
AA> GH> Windows. The answer was : "If you're gonna do that, why not
AA> GH> just go Windows!" Alien mindset!

AA>A sad commentary indeed.  :(   MS has succeeded in brainwashing them to
AA>think no alternatives exist.

 I* can see the Logic. Senior Citizens are very computer unaware. I have
 worked with several and even the Smallest difernces can trip them up.
 While they are Good the LINUX lookalike GUI's cound through a great
 deal of confusion in the the picture. POarticualrly if hte Senior Has
 Windows at home and is in the Senior Center to learn Computers.
Of course if that is the only place they will ever touch a computer it
might work.
FACE it, Like it or NOT Windows is the Computing Operating of basicly
hte World. Adn IF linux wants to break into hte Home market they are
going to have to do a MUCH better jopb of making it look and operate
like windows.
The purists of course disagree and I think they are to ones seriously
holding back the Development of LIUNUX for the Home user.
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