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[Fred A. Miller]

On Tuesday 02 August 2005 1:02 am, Nathan T. wrote:
> On 7/31/05, Timothy Butler <tbutler at ofb.biz> wrote:
> > > Well, this year alone I "walked" over 30 people over the phone
> > > through a SUSE
> > > install, and MANY MORE than that in my area here where I've either
> > > done the
> > > install or been present during one. ;)
> >
> > I haven't done nearly as well. I switched three people over to GNU/
> > Linux, personally. One ultimately became a Mac OS X user, the other
> > two went back to Windows XP after a short period of time. :-(
>
> I might as well tell you about my coworkers at Staples. Only one
> person claims to actually still use Linux from time to time, the rest
> either don't know what is it, or react with hostility at the name of
> it (and fit into the first group ;-) ).
>
> There is a lot of ignorance at the Staples where I work surrounding
> Linux, none of the people there have given it half a chance, they just
> decided to judge it according to their resident expert Wayne who also
> believes that viruses written in assembly code can run on any
> architecture and operating system with just one compile thanks to the
> magic virus faeries.

Oh boy.....real "rocket scientist," eh? ;)

> For the most part I like working at Staples, but I'm glad I'm not in
> the computer department because then everyone would have to hate me
> for making them look dumb, just about every last one of the associates
> there says Linux and Mac OS X suck, but wouldn't be able to recognize
> either OS during booting, and wouldn't recognize Linux at all because
> the truth is only one of the people there aside from myself even
> claims to have actually run Linux.

The key word is "claims," which means it's questionable. That Staples isn't 
unlike any other Staples I've been in.

> Linux and Apple really haven't made very many inroads in to this part
> of Saskatchewan and in Newfoundland. Aside from having a few people
> forming lugs in the larger cities there really isn't anyone using
> Linux or Mac OS here. I know one person outside of my family that
> takes Linux serious and has actually used it for a fact, and one
> person from school that owns a Mac, and those two people, along with
> my dad and myself are the only people I've know in my life to have
> actually used any non-MS operating system with even the slightest
> intent of giving it a fair chance and seriously seeing what it can do.
> Sad isn't it.

Yes, it is, for more than 1 reason.

Fred

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