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Re: Screenshots?
by fp26 on Saturday 04/Nov/2006, @21:39
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Nah, they don't need to know or want to know.
They just need to know that it will works as expected.
Let me explain.
Basically it started like this:
- Switch from IE to Firefox over a 2 year period.
(He was getting way too much spyware. Why did you download/install this?
I don't know I followed instruction on the page... type of user)
- Switch "mail client" to Hotmail. (could have been Gmail nowadays)
- Removed IE icon from his Windows computer
- Switch Word to OpenOffice
- Ensure his favorites old DOS games works on Linux DOS emulator.
Then one day, I installed Linux on his laptop,
configured it and for all he knows it works the same,
with KDE on a Win9x theme.
As long as: he can type and print documents, play his DOS games,
surf the internet and read his email all day, he doesn't care.
He doesn't really know the difference and that's a good news.
End users should not need to know, as long as things works as expected.
End users don't care that their VCR are a FPGA, Linux box or something else,
as long as PLAY, RECORD, REWIND, FWD, STOP, ON/OFF works as expected.
So, to make a point, you can first transpose the user to free applications,
then if all they use are free applications then the OS under it doesn't matter,
as long as "it continues to works as expected". |
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