[mdlug] Linux Desktops For Sale

[Aaron Kulkis]

Robert Adkins wrote:
> Maybe.
> 
> All I know is the day to day issues of dealing with an office full of
> definitely not power users and the difficulty they experience when forcibly
> upgraded from one OS to the next, one office package to the next and the
> complete negative experience they carry for upwards of a few months while
> they are growing used to the latest Windows/Office setup.
> 

Precisely.  Since the same issues exist WITHIN the microsoft
upgrade path...and most of your buyers have experienced it
at least once themselves (it not multiple times), I really
don't understand why you're sweating about this.

Users' are already USED TO uncomfortable change.. .but if
you tell them that, once you switch to Linux, there will
be NO MORE FORCED UPGRADES with the attendant pain like
in the Windows domain, I'm willing to bet that they'll
grin and bear it for longer.

Also... I would use a bit of "negative psychology" when
selling these systems. Question them about their level of
expertise, and then -- especially with the technically
savvy, say  "I don't think you're ready for the change
of mindset required to learn to use this operating system."

Now, what you've done is CHALLENGED THEM to be up to the
task of learning the system.  A lot of them will then
stick it out through the learning curve JUST TO KEEP
FROM BEING PROVEN as the "wimpy" user you said they were.

People have pride... use it to your/our advantage ;-)



> -Rob
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
>> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Kulkis
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:11 PM
>> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Linux Desktops For Sale
>>
>> Robert Adkins wrote:
>>> It's not about what we, the technically skilled, see. It's 
>> about what 
>>> the neophyte or always been on Windows User would see and 
>> subsequently grok.
>>> (Note, I didn't say Windows Power User.)
>>>
>>> -Rob
>> Actually, the Windows neophyte is EASIER to migrate to Linux 
>> than the Windows Power User... the neophyte has far fewer 
>> preconceptions built on the various bad architectural 
>> practices of Microsoft.
>>
>> The neophyte doesn't understand anything, and KNOWS they 
>> don't understand anything.
>>
>> What you're talking about are actually things to not confuse 
>> the Windows power user -- they are the ones who are usually 
>> completely befuddled by anything non-MS.
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