Fighting FUD with Humor

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 26, 2005 @10:52AM from the laughter-the-best-medicine dept.

Technophiliac writes to tell us MadPenguin in running a review of "Fighting FUD With Humor" Marcel Gagné's 2nd edition of "Moving to Linux". From the article: "The biggest obstacle is fear. Modern Linux distributions are easy to install and easy to use. Unfortunately, we are constantly presented with messages telling us that it's too hard and that the average person couldn't possibly grasp the complexity. That's rubbish. People aren't stupid and people who use computers learn new things all the time."

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Re:It's not that it's hard by JustADude · 2005-10-26 11:48 · Score: 5, Informative

People don't want to switch because they think they need office. Simple as that.
You're not kidding, I used to work for one of the big-box style electronics places, and just about every average computer shopper was convinced they needed MS Office. Supposedly, I should have pushed them towards buying said fantastically overpriced suite. Generally, I asked them what they'd use it for... 9 out of 10 just wanted to be able to type a letter.
Oy.