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Master of Reality:
have you seen calums screenshot of linux that looks pretty much like windows xp? maybe tricking is the answer?
or
nylon rope + a water pipe + a bucket + a nail + two pieces of 2X4 + duct tape + an eyebolt + a little patience == a method to convince anybody to do anything.

[ October 28, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]

Calum:
http://calumsmusic.netfirms.com/ice-xp.jpg
and
http://calumsmusic.netfirms.com/ice-xp.png

however i cannot get desktop icons to work. Apparently i need to be running GNOME 1.4 (with appropriate icons and colours and so on) with icewm as the window manager to properly make it work like windows xp. even then, it won't fool somebody, not if they actually look. and you would need to get wine working properly to use microsoft office, or else you'd have to have openoffice.org (or abiword, or kword, but they can't save as .doc files), and unless she is too oblivious to notice the difference between oo and MSoffice, i think you will fail to fool her.

however it might be worth adopting the idea as a project, find out what themes et c you need to get and so on to fake windows as best you can, i'm looking into theming GNOME or KDE to seem like windows 2000, as i think i have hit a wall trying to make icewm look like xp, since i don't have GNOME 1.4 installed...

as for reasons why, i am sure you know them all already. windows is internally fucked. the kernel routinely breaches its own security just to allow more than one process to run (so i have heard) which has got to be trouble, plus it cannot be fixed, and retain any real back-compatibility.

and so on,

basically, the proof is in the pudding. until she uses it with an open mind, and until she sees for herself the political reasons not to use microasoft's stuff, there will not be much convincing her

binskipy2u:
just get partition magic, make a small partition, and put linux on it.. just a minimal install...unless you have like 3-5gigs to spare, and dual boot it.. and just put her infront of it..and let her look around..
let nature take its course

jrigby:
damn!!
calum those pics are so close its kindve scary how did you do it??

voidmain:
He just needs the telletubby background and he'll be all set.

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