On 25/04/07, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Now I look at this from my daughters experience. The school she goes to us a Mac school but uses MS Office and IE. It crashes and has so many other issues. She uses Linux at home and loves it. She wants to use Firefox and OpenOffice but the school won't allow it. And some of the people she has talked to have never even heard of Linux or OpenOffice.
She's talking to the IT department? And they've never heard of OpenOffice?!?
Recently, I have been hearing more and more people are getting a shock out of the visual eye-candy of Beryl on Linux and some are dropping their Vista for Linux to use Beryl. It is eye-candy but Microsoft was hyping up the Aero display in Vista which is a very poor cousin to Beryl.
Aero is no cousin of Beryl/Compiz. They were independantly designed. They are not even similar. In the experience that I have with bringing new people into Linux, I haven't had anyone mention eye-candy as a reason for switching OS. I may be dealing with a technical crowd, but it isn't mentioned. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/516/xymox.html http://technology-sleuth.com/long_answer/what_are_the_advantages_of_lcd_monitors.html
