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Faust:
Hello all  
Was just wondering how I can convince my (primarily XP using) friends that Linux is great?  They seem consigned to just put up with their dodgy OS, rather than go through the effort of learning how to use a new better OS.  Their main arguments are that linux has quote pathetic games support end quote and that it would not be worth the effort of backing up partitioning installing learning a new OS.  How can I, a mere newbie, show them the light of this wonderful OS?

BTW, to whom it may concern thanks for the _fantastic_ site, and would any of you guys/gals mind if I ask some newbie questions about linux stuff? At the moment I am still very much in the learning phase...  (I will of course try and remember to rtfm  :D  )

Master of Reality:
flog them down until they are "convinced"

welcome to the boards,feel free to ask any questions you need to. A lot of people i know are tired of having their OS fuck up every day

[ December 09, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / B0B ]

Nobber:
I think it's more important that people not use Microsoft products than that they specifically use Linux. (I just happen to think that Linux is the best free alternative, which is why I use it.)

Have you told your friends how crap Microsoft is? If they have a smidgen of ethics in their bodies, they wouldn't want to touch any of that company's products ever again. Not even with a ten-foot pole.

If that doesn't work, try something like Knoppix.

Faust:
thanks for the idea Master, (lol) actually flogging some of my friends sounds fun... 8-)
and speaking of an OS fucking up I was too scared of screwing over my data to install linux originally... but then an XP screw up corrupted my hdd... shoved it in a friends computer as slave and could only recover the stuff i wasnt desperate to save... I must remember to thank Bill for screwing me over, removing the only obstacle to a linux install and pissing me off enough to try a fantastic OS... he has actually done something for me after all!

BTW, love the Bob page...

Faust:
thanks Nobber... I think I may actually be converting all the ethical ones... then again all the unethical ones are using cracked versions of XP  and loads of warez... (you mean you want free software, you just dont want free software that WORKS???) 8-)

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