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- backslashdigg, on 09/24/2008, -8/+132"You have five minutes and ten sentences to explain Linux to a complete newbie, without the geekery mumbo jumbo. What would you say? Here is my take:
1) Linux is a Kernel."
Now you have to explain to the newbie what a kernel is.
Buried, lame list. - inactive, on 09/24/2008, -11/+1201. 100% free, stable clean, fast
2. No anti-virus or anti-malware required
3. 1000% customizable look, color, theme, etc.
4. Free community support, each version (distribution) has a forum to post questions. People are very eager to help.
5. Linux, open source community software written by geeks, used by everyone.
6. A full complete desktop/laptop operating system with full Office, DVD/CD burning, Video, Graphics all for free!
7. Why pay for software when you can get web, ftp, pop and server functionality for free.
8. If you can handle XP you can handle Linux.
9. There are as many different distros of Linux as there are types of cars.
10. Download and Burn the .iso to a cd . Boot off of the cd and see if you like it? If not toss the cd and try another distro. - cpsutcliffe, on 09/24/2008, -1/+103Linux 'IN' a Nutshell*
- Smegzor, on 09/24/2008, -3/+39Great list! MUCH better than the list in the blog post.
- loconet, on 09/25/2008, -0/+34"1) Linux is a Kernel."
Horrible start. - Jyaif, on 09/25/2008, -2/+35Linux 'FOR' a Nutshell*
- DickyT83, on 09/25/2008, -2/+33Linux 'ACROSS' a Nutshell*
- D4r7h3v1l, on 09/25/2008, -2/+32Linux 'BETWEEN' a Nutshell*
- CaptSnuffy, on 09/25/2008, -1/+31Linux 'AROUND' a Nutshell*
- rye425, on 09/25/2008, -2/+30Linux 'UNDER' a Nutshell*
- kenij, on 09/25/2008, -2/+29Linux 'BESIDE' a Nutshell*
- D4r7h3v1l, on 09/25/2008, -5/+31Linux 'ACCIDENTALLY' a Nutshell*
- kitsua, on 09/25/2008, -1/+25Exactly. I read that, the first on the list and just pulled a facepalm.
- HiKevinRose, on 09/25/2008, -2/+23Linux 'BEHIND' a Nutshell*
- geeshock, on 09/24/2008, -3/+24You may have lost a few newbies at burn the .iso to a CD.
- ligyron, on 09/25/2008, -3/+23Shouldn't it be "Linux in a nutshell"? or was that too hard to Photoshop
- colasrtney, on 09/25/2008, -0/+20Linux is for hackers
If your child is using Linux, your child is a hacker
Linux was created by Linus Torvalds
Linus went to a Hacker University where he made hacker friends who only talked about hacking and knockin boots
In Linux the mouse arrow points to the right because Linus has a right-wing agenda
If you use Linux you are a Penguin enthusiast
Penguins fly when no one (human) is around
In Linux the taskbar is called the bottom slab
In Linux screensavers are called flippydippleskimskams
No keyboard is required for linux, all text is input through mouse gestures or gentle whispers. - franklymister, on 09/25/2008, -1/+20You're talking to a newbie and the first thing you do is tell them it's a kernel?
Good luck with that. - u8myfoood, on 09/25/2008, -3/+20Aren't they the things that pop when you make popcorn?
/S - cawpin, on 09/25/2008, -0/+16Anybody who said 1000% to me would be dismissed as an idiot. I'm not dismissing Linux as I use it myself but the worst thing you can do is sound like a salesman.
- TheCoreh, on 09/25/2008, -3/+18Linux 'SELECT' a Nutshell*
- inactive, on 09/25/2008, -4/+19Give it up, we all know you are really a dude.
- Delta009, on 09/24/2008, -1/+16A friend of mine always carries a Live CD in is school bag. Whenever a teacher had problems with one of the school's computers, he would take the Live CD out and give it to the teacher.
He hasn't lost a newbie yet too. - LanEvo, on 09/25/2008, -0/+15I guess it really will run on anything.
- Dumbledorito, on 09/25/2008, -0/+14Please keep your OS off of my nuts.
- inactive, on 09/25/2008, -0/+14colonel?
- Delta009, on 09/24/2008, -3/+15Yeah... That's the ten sentences to freak the newbie out and convincing him that his ***** Windows is easier.
- jasmus, on 09/25/2008, -1/+11(going into average user mode here)
1. Cool, sounds good
2. Even better!
3. Awesome, I like to tile pictures of my dog as a wallpaper.
4. Cool, how do i post a forum?
5. what's open source mean? i don't want people to think i'm a geek.
6. What's an operating system? is that the start menu? I like free.
7. I'm not sure i need whatever the ftp and pop thingies are. I already have web, the blue "e" came with my computer. What am I serving to who?
8. That's good news... wait, it's doesn't say start, what do I do?
9. Oh. I like red cars.
10. burn? iso? boot? Is that what happens when the screen goes blue?
It's a good list, but far from understandable to "a complete newbie". - cday, on 09/24/2008, -8/+18I have a quick, no-fail method of convincing Windows users to try something different. I just bat my eyelashes, give 'em a big smile, hand them a Live CD and say: "Let's try this on your computer, it's NOT Windows, so no need to be afraid of it. If you like it, I will help you install it and learn it."
Works every time. Haven't lost a newbie yet. :o) - somedudemanguy, on 09/25/2008, -0/+10What's a kernel?
- leerayIG88, on 09/24/2008, -1/+9so...what does this penguin do?
- LanEvo, on 09/25/2008, -0/+7whats it taste like?
butter?
kettlecorn?
probably that nasty nacho cheese? - LanEvo, on 09/25/2008, -0/+7that doesn't count. crysis doesn't run on anything, so its kind of hard for anything to run on it. but it is theoretically possible.
- GeyserShitdick, on 09/25/2008, -1/+7Linux 'OF' a Nutshell*
- tesladoom, on 09/25/2008, -0/+6Free. Fast. Safe. Secure.
If I had a nickle for every home PC I 've installed Ubuntu on... - LanEvo, on 09/25/2008, -0/+5>You have five minutes and ten sentences to explain Linux to a complete newbie, without the geekery mumbo jumbo.
fails at the very beginning - Hermmunster, on 09/25/2008, -0/+5Item numbers 7, 8, & 9 are all new prospects are going to understand. No one cares if Linux is the kernel or not. They don't care what a distribution is, they care what programs come with it and want to know where to get more.
The author is an old school linux guy or someone that is learning the old school attitudes.
Users want to know if it has the programs they need and want, whether it has more that don't know about, where to get more, and whether it is free or not. - jasmus, on 09/25/2008, -1/+6no, someone compiled ubuntu for a walnut. It's a bit slow, and compiz doesn't work properly yet, but it's use-able.
- arjie, on 09/25/2008, -1/+6Well, it makes sense to put that there. He did say he was going to talk about it in a nutshell.
- jasmus, on 09/25/2008, -0/+5Also, what's an operating system? I just use word and the blue e.
- phoenixp3k, on 09/25/2008, -0/+5Agreed, this list is much better. I know people who'd be lost on Operating System.
Yes the blog post does explain what Linux is in a nutshell but the description about the explaining to someone makes it inaccurate in my eyes. - inactive, on 09/25/2008, -0/+4Linux 'WITH' a Nutshell*
- TheSilentNumber, on 09/24/2008, -4/+8Linux is commonly used to describe a group of operating systems that are free in every sense of the word.
- ZaZ2137, on 09/25/2008, -0/+4Except....linux is better :)
- mithrasinvictus, on 09/25/2008, -0/+4They did, http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8386088053.html
but that's beside the point. - JonForTheWin, on 09/25/2008, -0/+4Only developers know how to use Firefox, Amarok, OpenOffice Writer, Pidgin, Evolution, or a bit torrent client, those are some hardcore haxxor ***** apps right there.
oh wait . . - newl, on 09/25/2008, -1/+5You'd still be in the same boat.
- burketo, on 09/25/2008, -0/+3If you are going to try and "sell" linux to someone, you should really push the whole dual boot thing. That's what sold it to me originally and now i haven't used windows in ages.... It serves as a nice way to break people in to the idea of not windows.
- ligyron, on 09/25/2008, -1/+4This is without geekery mumbo jumbo? The only point I fully understood was #8
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