Over the past summer I've been talking to people and gotten expierence as well as working and setting up the club I'll be having over the upcoming school year (high school).
The thing is that many people are too scared to even tryLinux or in this case Ubuntu. I've heard lots of "friends" complain about their computers being a slug ( malware...what else?)... One of my friends suggested to try Ubuntu and see if they liked it or not. Immediately , they were like in some state of fear and then making claims that Linux isn't compatible and that it's too hard to use.
Not to mention , several people referred me to as one of those "church people who try to convert you into their religion" ( that's rather harsh from my opinion and I've gotten frustrated from such feedback)
Main point : Considering from that experience , that would be a typical HS student? Due to the fact that everyone is so used to Windows , they fear change and anything different.
Me and one of my friends got onto Linux mainly because of boredom and that we wanted to try something different.
So the situation is that I'm making a school club that's promoting Linux and open-source (but at the same time giving users choice to use both Windows or Linux since I'm not anti-Microsoft). I've asked people about what they think of it...they all say that it's gonna probably just immediately fail. ( Thing is that there's no other tech club at school )
Here's a brochure I made that me and my friend would be distributing on "Club Day 2007"
they're 2 pictures of front and back of the brochure.
So basically what would be good ways into getting people into linux w/o the impression of them thinking we're like "church people"?
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