On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:49:13AM -0500, James Spinti wrote: > > |And you instantly knew what to do the first time you saw the infamous > |"Start" button the first time ever you installed windows and booted it > |up? I was pretty helpless (as far as I can remember). > | > Of course, isn't it intuitive that to shutdown a machine you push start? :) > > Being the typical lazy middle class kids that they are, they wanted it > handed to them... :( They both acknowledge the superiority of Linux, they > are sick of crashes, etc. But, it is still easier for them to reboot than > to take the time to learn something new...as I said, they won't even > willingly use the NT machine... Make it so that it automatically gets into kde|sawfish|yourwmhere and put mozilla|netscape|konqueror in their .xinitrc? It can't be much easier. It only took my wife one question to forever remember how she starts a browser on my system. Actually I can see on my system that when she reboots her own Win98 she always uses my computer to check her email while her machine is booting. Okay, it only took a little "neglect" to make her use Linux for 6 months last year until she figured out how to get online from windows. I told her how to ssh into our gateway to get ppp running and that just worked for her. I ruined it myself by going online from her computer (in Win98) one day and she asked me how I did that! ;-) and she just stayed in windows of shear convenience. -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer>