Fedora for Linux Newbies

[Frank Murphy]

I have occasionally seen it said,
that Fedora should not be installed for
people, who have never come across Linux before.
I believe this to be an urban myth.

I have recently @Feb-March installed it to a laptop,
for someone who was exactly that, never heard of Linux.
He had a proprietry version of 2000 installed,
which was refusing to boot.

I suggested Fedora 10 to him, showed him my Laptop.
He was sold, has only called me once since.
How to copy photos over.

He is now telling his local pub friends, of Fedora Linux.

If you don't try, you will never know.


Just thought I'd share.
Frank

[Francesco Ugolini]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)
<frankly3d(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  I have occasionally seen it said,
>  that Fedora should not be installed for
>  people, who have never come across Linux before.
>  I believe this to be an urban myth.
>
>  I have recently @Feb-March installed it to a laptop,
>  for someone who was exactly that, never heard of Linux.
>  He had a proprietry version of 2000 installed,
>  which was refusing to boot.
>
>  I suggested Fedora 10 to him, showed him my Laptop.
>  He was sold, has only called me once since.
>  How to copy photos over.
>
>  He is now telling his local pub friends, of Fedora Linux.
>
>  If you don't try, you will never know.
>
>
>  Just thought I'd share.
>  Frank 
Sure, that's a really interesting case study.

The power of action is 1000% worth than 10^100 words.

Regards

Francesco Ugolini

[Paul Mellors]

Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
>  I have occasionally seen it said,
>  that Fedora should not be installed for
>  people, who have never come across Linux before.
>  I believe this to be an urban myth.
>
>  I have recently @Feb-March installed it to a laptop,
>  for someone who was exactly that, never heard of Linux.
>  He had a proprietry version of 2000 installed,
>  which was refusing to boot.
>
>  I suggested Fedora 10 to him, showed him my Laptop.
>  He was sold, has only called me once since.
>  How to copy photos over.
>
>  He is now telling his local pub friends, of Fedora Linux.
>
>  If you don't try, you will never know.
>
>
>  Just thought I'd share.
>  Frank
>
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If you look at May's Linux Format [if you're in the UK] then they say 
that Fedora 10 is their pick for everyday desktop

"Fedora might not be the easiest distribution to use, or the one with 
the largest package respository, but we feel it represents the very best 
that open source has to offer."

cheers
Paul

[Jason Benedict Low]

Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
>  I have occasionally seen it said,
>  that Fedora should not be installed for
>  people, who have never come across Linux before.
>  I believe this to be an urban myth.
>
>  I have recently @Feb-March installed it to a laptop,
>  for someone who was exactly that, never heard of Linux.
>  He had a proprietry version of 2000 installed,
>  which was refusing to boot.
>
>  I suggested Fedora 10 to him, showed him my Laptop.
>  He was sold, has only called me once since.
>  How to copy photos over. 
+1
I did the same to my pal whom is not educated and not that aware of PC, 
a lorry driver. He is good in navigating with the handphone thus 
thinking he can try out computer <as in the way of handphone> but 
realized he is lost in other OS windows environment and also poor man 
like him cannot afford all expensive commercial licenses and etc. That 
is where Fedora 10 + LXDE being introduced to him, an hour of 
familiarize the UI with him, now he is happy and have no issue - he 
comment that the "Add/Remove Software" is good, he just need that to 
find software :-)
>  He is now telling his local pub friends, of Fedora Linux.
>
>  If you don't try, you will never know. 
+1

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[Neville A. Cross]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Jason Benedict Low
<jbenedictlow(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
> >
> > I have occasionally seen it said,
> > that Fedora should not be installed for
> > people, who have never come across Linux before.
> > I believe this to be an urban myth.
> > 

I felt that I can not go around telling people to use Fedora if in my
house there are non-Fedora machines. I set up my wife laptop with
fedora, and she is a Dentist. I also set up my mom's pc with fedora.
She is 68, a retired business manager. Both are happy, as I make sure
that everything is working for them. Most people criticize Linux as
difficult to use because of installation and set up, but most computer
user are just that: Users. They are not technicians, they can't
install any OS or do any repairs, they relay in other people skills.
BUt what really matters is that Fedora is easy to use.

-- 
Neville
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v
Linux User # 473217

[Zied Fakhfakh]

My mother (now 56) started 6 years later with Fedora she was happy
when my sister installed redmond she asked me to put back Fedora and
she's happy again.

For a new user Fedora is far more interesting and attracting than
redmond, not talking about viruses, blue screens etc etc ....
same story with my aunt (dentist)

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Neville A. Cross <nacross(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Jason Benedict Low
>  <jbenedictlow(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >
> >
> > Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
> >>
> >> I have occasionally seen it said,
> >> that Fedora should not be installed for
> >> people, who have never come across Linux before.
> >> I believe this to be an urban myth.
> >>
>
>
>  I felt that I can not go around telling people to use Fedora if in my
>  house there are non-Fedora machines. I set up my wife laptop with
>  fedora, and she is a Dentist. I also set up my mom's pc with fedora.
>  She is 68, a retired business manager. Both are happy, as I make sure
>  that everything is working for them. Most people criticize Linux as
>  difficult to use because of installation and set up, but most computer
>  user are just that: Users. They are not technicians, they can't
>  install any OS or do any repairs, they relay in other people skills.
>  BUt what really matters is that Fedora is easy to use.
>
>  --
>  Neville
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v
>  Linux User # 473217
>
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