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[1ballistic1 at gmail.com]

(CC'd the list as there's a few points here that I think some of us
forget, and it's also relevant to pushing Ubuntu.)

Hey Raymond,

This is from personal experience, but you're the perfect person to be
able to explain the conversion to what we now call end-users(I really
hate that word).

I've worked with people for years on the phone trying to fix stuff like
what you've asked about on the list so far.  For some  techie-types(the
ones who don't have that phone experience maybe?), they just mentally
can't find the level that makes sense to both ends of the conversation.
It sucks, but it happens.

Fear of looking like an idiot is always a powerful motivation to NOT try
new things, unfortunately. (By the way, congrats on taking that step
yourself.)

However, you have the understanding of what the differences are that
cause most of the fear already. 

You've been through the kinds of scenarios that most people would get
hung up on so far, and your questions have always been ones able to get
you (reasonably likely) solutions.

So here's my point...You've already given your two biggest selling
points: 

"I have been using Ubuntu exclusively for over a year now"

"I am an end user and I really like Ubuntu"


So sell it to people that way.  You don't have to understand the
technicalities to get the point across to most people.  If it really
gets to the point where technical is an issue, then, as you already
know, if there's nobody familiar around, the wonderful people on this
list(and other lists/forums/etc) come to the rescue.

Eric


On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 08:20 -0400, raymond house wrote:
> Hello everyone, I have been using Ubuntu exclusively for over a year
> now and Lucid Lynx since it has been available.I am an end user and I
> really like Ubuntu but have a hard time convincing others to switch. I
> find most people are wary of leaving a system that they are familiar
> with. One of my daughters is going to switch, but she was a programmer
> at industry Canada for many years. 
>         I have a question about download manager, a lot of the items
> to download don't mean a thing to me so I download them all but
> recently I have been getting Google chrome suggested, this has
> happened several times, but I already have Google chrome! How come ?
> I don't like the idea of using the cloud so I don't use chrome.
>         I am happy with Lynx, so far no problems !   Ray