arctic Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 i have currently converted six people to switch from windows to linux. and you? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_the_fish Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 7 - an thats with both hands tied behind my back LOL :P Really, it was due to Open Office kicking MS Words ARSE all over the uni campus when all my year had to write our diss's... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 none we all still use win (dualboot) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitor Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 One guy I know who had had a virus on his PC. His Win 98 was cleaned but broken. I installed Mandrake for him, and he found his way with it quite quickly. Should go visit him again to see if he needs some more explaining, but from his last mail, it seems that he's OK. Might do it for my father as well. He's running XP on a lappy, but he's interested because of the virii, etc. Ciao, Sitor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echylo Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 one :-) he's happy with it now, just gave him a live cd and he was sold (knoppix)(uses now mandrake :P) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 Converted my lil sis. She used win Me but she get tired of it allways crashing and other malfunction, so I installed mandrake Linux on her machine. She uses PCs only to write letters, poems, Email and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a13x Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 2 attempts so far without succes :(. I'm making a third attempt right now ! (I'm burning the MDK 10 CDs as I'm writting this). My little sister is also interested in Linux .... but she also likes Sims games. Does Sims 2 run on Linux ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 none yet that I know of... :shame: I planted a lot of seeds though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb2 Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 i wouldn't go so far as to say converted, but i have instilled an interest in five people so far. one, a good friend of mine, is a network engineer and when i first showed him mandrake 8.0 he looked at me and said "this looks a lot like unix! i used to use that years ago" i said "well it is unix compatible" and he was quite taken with it. he now runs linux on one of his own servers and always carries a linspire live cd with him (just to show his customers without installing over their precious winblows). the other four people are all friends who asked me "what is that running on your machine?" i said "linux" and they all said can i try that on my machine! needless to say my burner has been busy although none of them have a lot of spare time to learn linux, they all seem to have linux still installed and running (along with windoze). so i am doing my bit (honest) reb2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 NONE, I don't talk to people outside of e-mail/irc/forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luizmdk Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 None and my father makes me pressure I to stop to use Linux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 NONE, I don't talk to people outside of e-mail/irc/forums. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> not true! you called me on the phone once :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 not true!you called me on the phone once :P <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ok, so I lied. You said you were going back to windows so I had to stop you! :P I convert the massess! :deal: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 around 6. im meeting with some of my masteral batchmates (im into distance education) for the first time for some review session. i plan to give along 10 knoppix 3.6 cds during the meeting. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmsa Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 I tried with two friends of mine a few years ago and with two others now. I converted myself (for the moment...) and my wife. She is not allowed to switch to win without my concent! I'll get Sh does not complin lately ... I just have to find some solutions and time to fix my sound, find a IM with voice and that's it. I, for sure, will forget wi(kk). My wife will have to follow me. Already she enjoy it! So at the end I have coverted someone for sure!!! I am so close. I love the fact that I can leave ten's of windows (app and such) opened ans still my pc works nice after 1 week. I hate when I have to reboot or switch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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