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[James]

As 1ballistic1 said"Fear of looking like an idiot", I remember being new to
Gnu linux, there was a lot of stuff I didn't yet comprehend and the support
was minimal(back when ubuntuforums was a separate party from Ubuntu) and
there was minimal support. Back in 5.10/6.04 there wasn't much community
support(fix it yourself kind of approach), but now it's ridiculous how much
support there is(and most of it is free!!!).

When I promote ubuntu I tell the user that it's easy to use for webbrowsing,
email, word processing, chat and (now) installing software and if you have
problems there is a wide community that is willing to help out.

As I always say there are no dumb questions, only dumb answers

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:44 PM, <1ballistic1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> (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
>
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