Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Steve Litt at Troubleshooters.Com
<littdom@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:54:13 +0100
> Guy Marcenac <guy@posteurs.com> wrote:
>
>> [...]. Surely, there is something I did not understand about your
>> needs.
>
> Security.
>
> SteveT
You get me in a mood to riff on Microsoft and security, and I'll rail
on them as much as anyone. (More than most.)
But it's not the tech. MSWindows 7/8, if you are willing (And most
don't _feel_ secure unless they do.) to use Semantics's packaged
"security" products, you can get as good results as using Linux
without understanding security.
If you friends understood security, you would not be having to lead
them by the hand. Not that leading them by the hand is a bad thing,
just be sure to expect a certain percentage of disappointment in this
project.
But if you can manage it, do have an install party. You can even tell
those who are not brave enough to install on their own hardware to
come and watch the fun. Have people bring food, of course. Maybe even
set up a largish monitor to be playing stupid 'nix tricks from
youtube.
Even if they can't quite figure out what to do with Linux, it'll be a
great opportunity to socialize and it may provide the sort of
good-feeling reinforcement that would lead some of them to try again
later.
--
Joel Rees
Be careful where you see conspiracy.
Look first in your own heart.
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