[kwlug disc.] Windows vs. Linux

[Unsolicited at gto.net]

I agree, I'm not interested in the topic as listed. I'm tired of the Windows
treadmill. I really don't care about Vista.

I am not interested in the OS. Computers aren't about OS', they're about the
applications and how people accomplish something with them. The OS is the
hammer, teach me how to use the hammer, not about the hammer.


Having said that, I think there is value in two aspects:

- if Windows Vista is bringing something new to the Windows table, it may be
interesting to some how GNU/Linux already has it.

- how to do what you do in Windows, in GNU/Linux. i.e. Break down the
transition barriers to moving to Linux - I assume usually to be "I don't
know how to do that over there."

	- this presumes attendance by very new Linux or potential Linux
users. I can't say how much of the group are at this stage.

	- E-mail, GIMP, web publishing, and on and on and on.


For that matter, isn't this area exactly what Marcel's books seek to
address? Does it make more sense to not have a presentation, point out such
books, and be ready to help any that ask?

Maybe we need to be vigilant in trying to not make the meetings
intimidating?

Or maybe this is really a X/K/Ubuntu installfest thing, where attendees get
help installing to a dual-boot situation, and get them into the web, e-mail,
open office, and printing? Get them on the list so when they do get home and
get stuck, they can pose the question to the list and be able to receive the
answer.

-----Original Message-----
From: kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org [mailto:kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org] On
Behalf Of Charles McColm
Sent: December 6, 2006 9:11 AM
To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
Subject: RE: [kwlug disc.] Windows vs. Linux

Topics:
 --->"Windows Vista vs Linux [no distro in particular] - Clash of the GUIs"

I know this isn't a topic I'd be interested in. I could care less about
Windows quite frankly. I'm not interested in what Microsoft has to offer
because it's much the same every launch, things they promise never make it
until a few years later. Seeing gui special effects isn't worth a whole
meeting, or even half a meeting. Just my $0.02.

Charles
Charles McColm, charlesm at theworkingcentre.org Computer Recycling Project The
Working Centre
web: http://www.theworkingcentre.org/
phone: 749-9177 ext. 225 

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