-----Original Message----- From: owner-wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:owner-wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz]On Behalf Of Greig McGill Sent: Thursday, 6 May 1999 08:58 To: 'wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz' Subject: RE: [wlug] redhat 6.0

Hey.

Yep, it clearly is a long time - so long you've forgotten how to spell my name! ;)

Anyway... Your comment about not having much time stirred something in the "tech" inside of me... It seems that a good proportion of would-be linuxers are put off by "not having enough time" to play with Linux in order to get to a point where they are comfortable using it.

Oh for enough time to fiddle :)

I think the cause of this is the microsoft world. People are often scared to take that leap away from windows, and may need to fall back on windows apps for productivity/compatibility reasons.

I think people in general are afraid of change, If the software they currently use does what they want they see no reason to change to something else. Also with the majority of people using computers today being only semi computer literate (or even Illiterate), most people arn't interested in investing the time to learn a new interface/method of work, even if it is 1000 times better

This in turn hinders the spread of linux, and in effect, adds to the problem...

What do you all think? How can we help (short of nuking M$!)?

I recon the best way to help is to get in at grass roots level, it the newbie's just starting, ie school kids, tech students. If they are introduced to things before they get into the full workforce, cause once they get out there they will be taught one way of doing things and if that way is MS your stuffed. Just my $0.02 worth -- Craig Mckenna IT Systems Manager Tintz Graphics Limited craigm(a)tintz.co.nz