[Leaplist] Dell to offer GNU/Linux

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Fuzzy Conner wrote:
>>> or, who goes into the filesystem,  and hits the 'format' button, or, 
>>> goes into the system folder and starts deleting files "because they are 
>>> just sitting there, wasting space, where I could put some MP3s!"!!!
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> Those are excellent arguments for why novice users would be better off
> running Linux.  _Because_ the user can't "point and click" their way to
> deleting /etc (for example) Linux is the better choice.
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> That reminds me of something I read once:
> "To create a crash working with Linux you have to work at it,
> to create a crash with Windows you have to work on it."
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>>> When I give them a LiveCDrom, they want to know everything about it 
>>> before they ever test it in their own system... 
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> As well they should.  Sooooo... tell them about it and get them to try it.
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On average, I demo Linux to about 10 new folks each week.  I show it 
running, discuss the free repoirtoire of free software and  suites.
I give out the free discs.  I give my email and the club  webpage.  

About three a year show up or contact our club.

But, I have planted a seed. 

Dell will cause it to spread even more, for tens of hundreds of folks I 
have introduced to it since 1997 will at least know that of which we all 
speak.

They are so brain washed, they don't trust anything that doesn't come 
from their god, Bill Gates, already installed on their computer!