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[Graham Cox]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:17:53PM +1000, Sunnz wrote:
 
> And I think people do know Linux is superior in a lot of aspect... but
> Linux just seem to be "for advanced users" and average joes out there
> proactively claims that they don't need 'advanced features'.
 
One problem here is that a lot of people know their certain software packages 
and want to stick to them. There are alternatives, but people don't want to 
learn how to use a different program to do the same thing - even if there 
isn't really any learning involved, the thought that there might be still puts 
them off. This is even worse with the software where there aren't alternatives 
- one that springs to mind is AutoCAD (My SO is an architect - she uses that 
  all the time, and there isn't anything even close for the non-Windows world 
  that I know about)...
 
> I think if we were to promote Linux to the everyday home user, it must
> be simple and minimalist, easy to install... showing a video of
> installing Feisty on a Windows machines without destroying Windows
> would be useful.

There is apparantly an unofficial version of Ubuntu that comes as a windows 
MSI file. You just download it and install it as if it's a normal windows 
program, and it installs Ubuntu somewhere (I've no idea where - the guy who 
told me about it claims that it didn't repartition his drive, but his windows 
drive was NTFS) and installs a bootloader for you to select Ubuntu or Windows 
at boot time.

-- 
Graham Cox

[We] use bad software and bad machines for the wrong things.
		-- R.W. Hamming
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