Making the switch easier fo newbies

[Knapp]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I sometimes go to my friends and family for a visit and they take advantage
>> of my PC Tech skills to fix all those pesky errors, slowness and Spyware
>> they get on their 3 yeard old (or older) Windows XP PCs....
>>
>> I would like to be able to convince them to switch to Linux (namely Ubuntu).
>> As we all know - humans fear any change....
>> So I was thinking it could be nice if I had a little free app I download to
>> their Windows PC. This little app would scan their PC for all apps installed
>> and the Web browser's History (after displaying the proper disclaimer, of
>> course) and then produce a list of suitable Linux distributions for the
>> specific needs of that computer user.
>> Maybe even generate a selections list we can use to install using apt-get
>> after a vanilla Ubuntu install, in effect - creating a 5 click Migration
>> Assistant...
>> Any of you know of such an app in existence?
>> Imagine the following scenario:
>> I go to my Aunts house, run this little app, it even downloads the proper
>> ISO, I burn the ISO to disc and  use it to revive her slow, buggy PC...
>> Thanks!
>>
>> .:====================================================:.
>>
>> Amichai Rotman
>
> Never  heard of it but in any case UBuntu comes with what most people
> use. It has a photo app, office, firefox and that is about all most
> people need most of the time. I would start their change by making
> sure they are using firefox or chrome in windows.

I forgot to say that you can also get them on open office under MS Windows.


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