| gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:32:15 -0400 |
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:57:19PM -0400, Stratos Parisiou wrote: > I would have to say the distributions that are more intuitive to the > ex-windows users (Red Hat, Mandrake). The beauty of Linux allows the > personalized GUI (preferably KDE or other stable GUI) while still > maintaining the Shell for the advanced users. Didn't read the rest of this email and I don't have to. Stratos is obviously right: anyone who cared enough to install their own window manager and so forth wouldn't be having you install the OS for them either. Oh, and an off-the-wall thought: get the Windows-installed laptops. Ship them that way. Include a Knoppix CD-ROM and a set of "install Linux directions" free of charge. Charge a moderate fee for doing the install two weeks later when the end-user likes it better but is afraid to nuke and pave for themselves. Bonus points for having set things up so that you can gracefully resize the partition and keep any files they've created. (No, I don't actually think this would work, but it'd be fun if it did!) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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