RE:Part of it is about Ubuntu Users too [LWN.net]

RE:Part of it is about Ubuntu Users too

Posted Aug 22, 2008 11:21 UTC (Fri) by Miladinoski (guest, #52970)
In reply to: Part of it is about Ubuntu Users too by dowdle
Parent article: In defense of Ubuntu

I think everything that you said is right, but it "oh so obvious" and you can't expect for that situation to change.

Imagine a user who has never used Windows who has used Ubuntu for 1 year and it's his first experience with OSs (hey, I said imagine) and then tell introduce him to Windows, ofcourse that he would be confused atleast a bit in the new environment and you can't expect for him not to ask stupid questions like he has never used a computer??
Dumbing down the community is a good thing because that means more newbies are introduced to the OS and that means the OS boosts it's user base which ofcourse is a good thing.

I know of 3 friends to which I recommended Ubuntu and 2 of them switched back to Windows - though they keep Ubuntu on the other partition ('cause in my high-school every student will have a thin client with Edubuntu on it - and they will want to have better experience with it) and the other one keeps Ubuntu and uses it more than Windows. He knows english relatively good and he can ask on IRC or on forums.

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