From: alan@invalid.com   
      
   On 2/10/26 12:48 PM, Mike Easter wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   I never thought about the idea of putting Linux apps on Windows so later the   
   change to   
   Linux has less impact since the same app is there.   It's taking baby steps.   
   I now do it the other way around, I put GIMP for instance on Windows so I have   
   that   
   familiar app to play with.   
      
   I'd like to find a good text editor that is Linux/Window.  Just googled and   
   saw 'Kate'.   
   I've used it in KDE and it's good.   I guess that's this weeks toy!!   
      
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