New User support

[James]

LiveCD doesn't require any harddisk commitment where as wubi does

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Leigh Honeywell <leigh at hypatia.ca> wrote:

> On 11-06-15 02:46 PM, Daniel Villarreal wrote:
>
>>
>> It's not like they have to delete MS Windows off of their hard drive.
>> Let them know that they can try out GNU/Linux from a CD/DVD-ROM, and
>> they just need to set up the computer to boot from CD/DVD-ROM. If they
>> like what they see, they can do virtualization. Let them know that they
>> have nothing to be afraid of. For a lot of people, touching the hard
>> drive is a scary proposition. Tell people to get a testing computer. The
>> price is right for the software.
>>
>
> These days I think it's much better to recommend Wubi over a liveCD if they
> have more than a passing interest.  The performance difference is night and
> day :)
>
> -Leigh
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