Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here
On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:14:49 +0000
Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 08:48:18AM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > To make it REALLY clear - anybody and everybody is welcome here: if
> > they need us to answer questions that should be fine.
>
> I think it's worth considering the fact that new computer users are
> increasingly less likely to use email and are more likely to find
> email intimidating.
>
>
So is webmail really more intimidating than, say, Facebook or WhatsApp?
For the probable minority still using email clients, setup is normally
built-in for the mass market free email providers, which our new users
will undoubtedly be using.
And would new potential Debian users not contain people in businesses,
small or large, who will most certainly be familiar with email, for
official purposes if nothing else? Only fools use WhatsApp for
important communications, people like MPs and Prime Ministers.
And are new computer users not pretty much compelled to set up a
Microsoft email address? It's getting more difficult to avoid.
Certainly a mobile phone user will be required to have an email address.
I don't think email is going away, it's just not the first communication
technology that people arriving in the Internet world are likely to be
exposed to. Such people will never have heard of Debian, or even Linux,
we're far more likely to see moderately experienced Windows users
looking for alternatives.
--
Joe
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