From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   pinnerite wrote:   
   > If you had been running a business in 2003 and decided to intrioduce   
   > all your staff to linux without grinding everything to a halt. How   
   > wouold you do it?   
   >   
   > My solution was to make the Linux desktop (of Mandrake as it was then)   
   > to look like Windows 98 by using a collection of icons I had garnered   
   > from several sources and then installed the Win4lin hypervisor. then   
   > hosting Windows 98.   
   >   
   > It went pretty well.   
      
   I have no experience w/ that 'business' of moving a 'group' of people   
   from Win to Linux, but I've read about it. I have one 'little'   
   experience w/ a friend who was 'always' a Win user, but when he came to   
   visit me, the 'station' I provided him was some linux distro, I forget   
   which one just now.  He did fine.   
      
   I /wouldn't/ say he consistently did 'fine' w/ Win; the main reason I   
   kept 'my hand in' Win thru' XP was to help him (and some others).   
      
   But, in the 'adventures' of the 'tech teams' I read about in .eu, I   
   think a better way to do it is to convert the 'masses' away from the   
   'conventional' Win software while on Windows to something that runs on   
   linux, and THEN change the underlying OS to linux.   
      
   Personally, I don't think the 'appearance' of the Win desktop is the   
   'solution', I think it is the unfamiliarity of the apps /along with/ the   
   differences in the underlying system; in which the differences in the   
   underlying system is less important, because the 'world' of the 'masses'   
   isn't in the underlying system nearly as much as it is in their   
   'everyday world' ie the apps.   
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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