How many people have you presuaded to use Linux?

[gruven]

I hand the Ubuntu cd's out where I work, and offer tech support for the installs. I also install it for free for them.

I have gotten quite a few people to try it out and decide to at least dual boot, because they like a lot of the free software and the look of gnome/kde. Most users enjoy not having to clean spyware every day. Once I set it up, and show them how to use it, I get a lot less calls about computers than I did when these same people used Windows full time.

[Apollo]

As of right now, 0 and i'd say I have 3 pending. My Ubuntu ShipIt is on the way and i'm going to give them the CDs then. I've already given 2 guys Knoppix LiveCDs and were intrigued. One guy is your typical pc geek with a really nice pc, 200GB HD, 2 GB RAM....etc. He doesn't want to go to Vista, and has expressed this to me numerous times. problem is hes a gamer and wants to play the latest Windows games. He has confided that only for that he would be using Linux right now. The other guy is interested in reviving one of his other pcs with rather old hardware. Even Windows 95/98 lags it up and constantly freezes. I told him about linux, gave him a LiveCd, he liked it but i'm still talking him into it.

I have Linux installed on both my PC and our family PC. Since all my mom does is go on the internet to pay bills, etc. She had no trouble clicking the little Firefox icon on the FC4 desktop to go about her daily business. My father just bought a new laptop, which has XP on it. When he comes home in June (hes a teacher, teaching in Nunavut) he has agreed seriously consider letting me installing Linux on his new laptop. When he was home during Mid-Term break, he had no trouble going about his business on my FC4 machine.

My sister is the next subject. She likes to chat on MSN constantly and blog around. She is 21 and recently had some cracker break into her box and steal all her MSN chat logs. He then proceeded to re-word them and try and start trouble, etc. First thing she does is run to me. First thing I say is..... I TOLD YOU SO. I must have to clean her pc up about once a month for sure. I tell her numerous times a day that she if she wants to be clean she has to go to Linux. She says no no no, not me, not linux. I'm like ok then, suffer in silence. I'm thinking about installing Suse on her laptop one day when she is gone. Maybe then she'll be forced to live with Linux and learn of all of Windows' shortcomings.

That is phase one of me taking over the world.

[budman7]

My sister is the next subject. She likes to chat on MSN constantly and blog around. She is 21 and recently had some cracker break into her box and steal all her MSN chat logs. He then proceeded to re-word them and try and start trouble, etc. First thing she does is run to me. First thing I say is..... I TOLD YOU SO. I must have to clean her pc up about once a month for sure. I tell her numerous times a day that she if she wants to be clean she has to go to Linux. She says no no no, not me, not linux. I'm like ok then, suffer in silence. I'm thinking about installing Suse on her laptop one day when she is gone. Maybe then she'll be forced to live with Linux and learn of all of Windows' shortcomings.

Have you tried letting her use a livecd so she can see the superiority of Linux.

[darkrose0510]

I'e got my 'friendly neighbourhood' computer tech on Linux, he now dual boots Suse 10 with Vista. Ably helped by a Linux using friend of his cracking into his computer and changing his desktop background to a simple black on white 'Windows Sucks', gotta love that.

I'm working on my brother/sister-in-law and their family, their current system is so slow it compares to watching streaming video with a 14k modem. Plus every few months it gets infected with another virus and crashes, and it's adware central. Only problem is I all my live distro's are on DVD not CD and they don't have a DVD drive, so I'll have to burn a CD one of these days for them to try.