Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?
On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 07:03 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 01:03 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Vi, 07 mar 14, 01:28:11, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
> > > > What do your friends expect, if they switch from Windows to Linux?
> > >
> > > This is multiple people. Publishers and authors mostly. I'd imagine
> > > they'd expect to run LyX, Inkscape, Gimp, LibreOffice, get and send
> > > email, and browse the web.
> >
> > And you are of course aware that all these applications also have
> > Windows versions so they can all switch before switching to Linux? This
> > would make things much easier.
>
> This is the reason for my doubts. If I would use Windows, I would use
> the same browser, the same Image Manipulation Program etc., I'm using
> with Linux. If people are using something from Adobe instead of GIMP,
> they likely could run it using wine, but that already is the whole
> point. Did the friends use FLOSS software with their XP installs? When
> switching to Linux, would they like too use FLOSS software, or will they
> run wine or a virtual machine and use all the proprietary software? JFTR
> you might have payed for software with a dongle, but when running it
> with wine, it's likely that not the payed version with a dongle does
> run, but just an illegal cracked version.
>
> I try to help newbies, especially in *buntu lists, where many people are
> not naive *nix users, but people who started using computers with#
native :D I noticed other typos, e.g. too vs too, but this one
might confuse a little bit
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