On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 21:55 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: > My father (actively retired and now at 70+ years old) has recently > purchased a new Eee PC. He really likes it! He surprised me and did > NOT order Windows XP to go with it. I have been helping him with a few > things. It has been an interesting experience. > > One evening we were confirming that his 8GB SD card was working > properly. He claimed it would not. We discovered that the path to the > card when inserted in the system was /media/SD_MMC (or something like > that). He wondered, of course, why it was not "drive D:" And then he > made a comment to this effect: > > "Am I going to have to learn lots of new things with this. Maybe I > should just buy Windows for it since I already know that." > > I am able to handle this situation. I mean, it's my dad and I'll help > him. I am expanding this experience to a wider picture. I'd like to > hear about other experiences and ideas around new Linux user training. > > What training resources have you seen work? > > How can such training best be presented or used? > > How have you overcome objections to learning or using Linux on the desktop? > > And so on? ---- 1 - he should join a support list. You didn't say which distro he's using but I think it would be of benefit to both of you if he had a means to solve problems/get answers that didn't rely solely on you. 2 - book...Linux for Dummies might be too generic and out of date but perhaps there's a distro book that tracks what he has installed. 3 - Tell him that he indeed can install Windows and have a 'dual boot' system, thereby making sure that the decision to running Linux is always his and not just to please you. 4 - Give him methodologies/bookmarks/concepts for solutions... - how to use konqueror to read man pages - www.tldp.org - google.com/linux - unleash him on PLUG ;-) Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss