Comments on: Deploying Linux on Machines of Non-Technical Users – Yay or Nay? http://www.everyjoe.com/newlinuxuser/deploying-linux-on-machines-of-non-technical-users-yay-or-nay/ Linux Tips - Information for Using Linux Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:56:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: dandellion http://www.everyjoe.com/newlinuxuser/deploying-linux-on-machines-of-non-technical-users-yay-or-nay/comment-page-1/#comment-10059 dandellion Wed, 27 May 2009 10:07:09 +0000 http://www.everyjoe.com/newlinuxuser/?p=1185#comment-10059 It is doable. MNost of the users actually don't care if you present the case well. Don't scare them with scary words like Linux. Just give them desktop and tell them that menu is not on the bottom but on the top (in the case of Gnome). Believe it or not, so many people won't even notice a difference in the first hour. About installing printer drivers and similar stuff... well you'll have to do it yourself or have somebody to do it. But then, if you were running Windows it would be the same. Currently, Ubuntu and other user-oriented distros are doing better job with common drivers than Win. Truth is that common office user doesn't know much about Win either. So it really doesn't make the difference to them as long as they know what are the names of the applications they need. It is doable. MNost of the users actually don’t care if you present the case well. Don’t scare them with scary words like Linux. Just give them desktop and tell them that menu is not on the bottom but on the top (in the case of Gnome). Believe it or not, so many people won’t even notice a difference in the first hour.

About installing printer drivers and similar stuff… well you’ll have to do it yourself or have somebody to do it. But then, if you were running Windows it would be the same. Currently, Ubuntu and other user-oriented distros are doing better job with common drivers than Win. Truth is that common office user doesn’t know much about Win either. So it really doesn’t make the difference to them as long as they know what are the names of the applications they need.

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