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   From: Goeroeboeroe    
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:51:21 +0100   
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   Op Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:09:37 +0100, schreef Dirk T. Verbeek:   
      
   > Goeroeboeroe schreef:   
   >    
   >> With all respect, but I still say if you install Pine or slrn or something   
   >> like that, you're absolutely not an average user.   
   >    
   > I used pine ten years ago even before I installed Linux.   
   > My ISP grants shell access to their BSD servers and I found pine (via    
   > Putty) to be an excellent mail client over bad connections and from    
   > badly configured computers with restrictive policies.   
   > Sure you have to read up a little but it's certainly not Difficult.   
   >    
   > There are different types of new Linux users, some try it because they    
   > are looking for a challenge, an adventure, some try it because they just    
   > need a reliable and working system.   
   >    
   > We can accommodate both.   
      
   Yes, of course. Personally I love the terminal for a lot of things, it's   
   one of the things I really hated with XP; hardly a thing you called call a   
   terminal.   
   But I'm talking about the 'average' user where I work.   
   Today I was somewhere to install antispam. I tried to explain why it was a   
   bad idea to change an anti-spam-setting on Outlook Express. The woman   
   started to look glazy and asked me to stop and just make the right   
   settings. That are the people I mostly see (for computerproblems, I mean   
   :o)   
   I really don't see these people, at this moment, switch to Linux, or they   
   must have a very good reason like buying a new computer and somebody   
   installing it for them.   
   Looking at your name you may be Dutch too, in that case you know for a lot   
   of Dutch people saving money is probably the most important reason to do   
   something :o), so when they buy a new computer, or they don't have to buy   
   a new one by installing Linux, that works.   
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