Promoting Linux before release of vista

[Amos H. Weatherill]

Hi, guys and gals.

Walter, I'm afraid that you may be overestimating the intelligence of the
average individual.  As someone who supports "average" users (currently
on Windows but I hope, soon on Linux as well) I have to say that I am not
encouraged by the intelligence level that I keep running into.

I think that you should stick with your first statement about Linux and
provide more information if it is asked for.

A more telling statement from their perspective might be to say that using
Linux would not require a hardware upgrade in most cases, unlike Vista,
which is sure to require a memory upgrade as a minimum.

Also we should mention that System level crashes are far less frequent
with Linux.  (That's the dreaded "BSOD" to Windows users)

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Sent: February 23, 2006 9:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Promoting Linux before release of vista


On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:55:52AM -0500, John Van Ostrand wrote

> Be careful. Some may interpret that as saying Linux is lightweight in
> features. Use the word "bloated" and "vista" together in a sentence and
> that might put both OSes in the correct light.

  Would this be understandable by the average person...

  - linux is more efficient than Windows

  - In Windows, many functions are *ALWAYS* loaded and using up
    resources even if when you don't need them, because they're
    integrated into the kernel

  - linux is more modular.  You can customize it to your taste.

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