   Im becoming a Linux Zealot
Help before its too late. I am even refusing to fix friends and family PC I just look at the problem and tell them to install linux. Im complaining more and more about microsoft hell I even have a couple of tux t-shirts.  
  1. Get gun2. Get bullets3. Load gun4. Place gun in mouth at an upward angle5. Pull trigger[/joke]   I Want My Island"The same people who so greatly oppose slavery, so much that they are willing to kill over it... have just forced me to fight the battle for them."- Robert (I Want My Island) ;quote:Original post by Tha_HoodRat  I am even refusing to fix friends and family PC I just look at the problem and tell them to install linux. LOL you are telling average users to install Linux?  I don''t think you should be telling anybody what to do regarding computers if that is the case.. my guess is that you can barely turn one on if this post wasn''t sarcasm B-) ;  Heh, I skipped the zealot phase of using Linux.  I did convert my brother just by example and he turned out to be the biggest zealot I have ever seen.I''m not saying I don''t occasionally trash Windows but I don''t make the career out of it that some people do.  Zealots, in general, miss facts by narrowing their perspective.  This goes for all zealots: Mac, Linux, and MS.  Of course, Mac zealots seem to get hit worse by this effect than others which is pretty humorous when you give them the ugly facts. ;quote:Original post by Imperil  LOL you are telling average users to install Linux?  I don''t think you should be telling anybody what to do regarding computers if that is the case.. my guess is that you can barely turn one on if this post wasn''t sarcasm B-)   There''s nothing wrong with that advice as long as they have an adequate level of skill and he''s prepared to support them.For example, my brothers and a cousin had a little above the computer knowledge possessed by hard core gamers.  They could troubleshoot most problems and knew their systems quite well.  They all converted to Linux to some degree and can work in it easily enough.  I didn''t have to do much tech support stuff to teach them once everything was setup.Right now I''m teaching my Dad bits and pieces about our Linux firewall at home.  His current favorite trick is accessing files from work over WinSCP and hosting simple stuff from ~/public_html.  He''ll probably never install it as a primary desktop OS but he can use it easily enough over the network and has Knoppix 3.1 lying around as a rescue disk.  Of course, I should note that Dad''s been using computer since before 1980 so he''s not the average user either. ;  There alreday is a Linux thread on the front page and it is much more mature than this one.   Sander Maréchal[Lone Wolves Game Development][RoboBlast][Articles][GD Emporium][Webdesign][E-mail]