Get Real or How NOT To Convert Your Grandma to Linux
Last week I’d been given a chance to make minor language correction to the article Understanding the Common User: All should be simple as it can. This article deals with how to treat people that know nothing about Linux, how to teach them what Linux is about and how not to do it to wrong people.
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The mentioned article inspired me to think about what is wrong with the Linux community. I’m using the term rather ironically. This “community” is full of nerds hyper-enthusiastic about Linux, who have been around for less than a year. The general consensus among these people is that Linux is superior to anything you could ever imagine, everyone should use it. Enough people reading this article will agree that it’s a very inaccurate statement, and that *the nerds* already knew that but both will agree that it’s the opinion shared by many, too many people out there. Take a look at Digg and see what I mean. (Fortunately, many zealots are getting buried.) It scares the hell out of people who aren’t familiar with Linux. Why is it like that? And why is that situation hurting Linux?
Isn’t it actually true, that Linux is that great?
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