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?
>
> Alan
>
When I came to Linux, I was actually quick to adapt to the different
system of organization for everything. /media/whatever is WAY simpler
than going through "My Computer" to figure out which letter corresponds
to which item I have plugged in.
It's also easier for me to find things like config files for my
programs. Ultimately, I have found Ubuntu to be infinitely simpler than
Windows.
Especially Vista! Did they WANT to confuse people? I went to Best Buy
and I can't find a damn thing on there! Finding "Notepad" in the Start
menu is *easily* a two-minute ordeal.
My two lepta.
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