HELP!! THE ONLY COMPUTER I HAVE ACESS TO'S OWNER'S A SHEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Canadian Lover]

I live with a cuple of roommates, and they refuse to replace Windows with Linux! here are the reasons

A:
 

quote:Windows can't read Linux

Her wife said this and she works at home; her co-workwers are also Windows lusers and use MICROSOFT OFFICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

B:
 

quote:Linux is hard to use, and only computer pros   unerstand linux

He knows  NO PROGRAMNG KNOLAGE! and thinks    only experts can understand it.

So I'll need:
-an alternative office suite, that runs on both windows and Linux, and can read the same files;
-proff that that linux is user friendly and everyone can use it.

Thx

[ May 10, 2003: Message edited by: The all Microsoft hater ]

[slave]

All I would do is show him this screenshot of Linux, showing off Openoffice.org, Gnome, and Nautilus browsing SMB shares.  That oughta convince him.

Check out this screenshot!

[EDIT]

Linux User, sorry for linking to the picture but the image is kinda big, and can scroll off the screen. I hope you don't mind.      

Panos;

[/EDIT];

[ May 13, 2003: Message edited by: Panos ]

[Fett101]

still, if he's going to be his own administrator, it can be tough at times and require much researching and troubleshooting. But please, don't let an OS come between friends.

[lazygamer]

What about dual booting?

[suselinux]

most distros take care of that automatically when installing.  A note to some, when I installed REDHAT 7.3 some months ago it made my (now nonexistent) MS Me partition "HIDDEN" acording to Partition majic.

[Pantso]

Linux user's screenshot says it all I believe. Tell your friends also that most recent distros like Mandrake 9.1 or SuSE 8.2 can resize NTFS partitions during installation. As for the Office suite they're talking about, I can't think of anything better than OpenOffice.org, which can read and write *.doc files.

One last thing. You don't need to have any programming skills to run Linux! For heaven's sake, all you might have to do from time to time is to compile some apps. It's not like everyone has to compile their own kernel.   :eek:  Oh and with Synaptic now, you can also forget all of the above. I can't think of anything easier.  

[suselinux]

Wheres a good place to find out about Synaptic

[lazygamer]

quote:Linux user's screenshot says it all I believe. Tell your friends also that most recent distros like Mandrake 9.1 or SuSE 8.2 can resize NTFS partitions during installation. As for the Office suite they're talking about, I can't think of anything better than OpenOffice.org, which can read and write *.doc files.

Ah so those CAN be resized! Good to know for my bro, who will eventually be trying out Redhat 9. Ummm can Redhat 9 resize NTFS partitions?

[Canadian Lover]

Thanks, Linux User, That outa show him Linux is better. I think I'll take Lazygrammer and get an external hard drive.

EDIT: whopps I said Windows is better   :eek:    :eek:

[ May 10, 2003: Message edited by: The all Microsoft hater ]

[Fett101]

Damnit Linux User. Why did you have to cover up your erotic anime. Now I gotta find my own.

[bling]

quote:Originally posted by fett101:
Damnit Linux User. Why did you have to cover up your erotic anime. Now I gotta find my own.

You need to see my background. O_o

[slave]

quote:Originally posted by fett101:
Damnit Linux User. Why did you have to cover up your erotic anime. Now I gotta find my own.

Oh I see, you just assume that because you can't see my background that it's automatically something perverse.  I'm outraged!

[baggab]

I feel for ya!  Its difficult to offer advice, if anything goes wrong people hate you; if things go right you never hear from them again.

Well, here goes.  What you need is a dual boot strategy.  What you need to know is:

Processor: a pentium 233 /w 32 MB of RAM is not going to run RH 8.0 (this is the turning point* release, in my opinion) where it might run Win98.

How much hard drive space do you have?  You need 2 GB free to be on the safe side.

You'll need a spare drive (of equal capacity to your windows files),  copy of Ghost, a 12 pack of beer, and a bottle of asprin(for the headache your going to have.)

*turning point: don't try to catch sheep on early releases of RedHat, it was for tech geeks only, and you will only scatter them in the field.

[Canadian Lover]

I'm now acepting donactions from people that see my pane. If you can be so kind to donate? any amount is apreacted (I'm talking like the webmaster now!) I just hope Norton has a therty day tral of ghost.

[Pantso]

quote:Originally posted by suselinux:
Wheres a good place to find out about Synaptic

Void main has written an excellent tutorial on Synaptic which you can find here.
These instructions are RH specific though and from your handle, I would assume that you run SuSE Linux. I really don't know if there's an apt package for SuSE Linux as well.