Like every fan, I can't help but share my joy with everyone by saying how great Linux is and trying to convince whoever is ahead to try it, and so, following the saying "everything starts at home", I decided to apply all those wonderful and persuasive arguments directly to my wife.
Unfortunately, the expectant mother of my children sent me flying when I tried to show her how well done and easy to use the Unity environment is. (That day I remembered a lot about Mark Shuttleworth's mother.) But anyway, I have always thought that it is a moral obligation to convert all our loved ones, so I decided that if I wanted to achieve my goal I would have to make a plan with a strict series of steps.
This is what I did:
Step 1:
Lead by example: First of all, the first thing I did was completely and forever abandon anything that linked me to Windows and started using Linux purely and exclusively (in this case Ubuntu). Ok, once done, the only thing left was to make him see me being happy.
Step 2:
Install everything she uses on my computer and show how well it works: In this case, in addition to continuing with the happiness of the previous point, I made a list of all the applications that she uses (which are not really that many), I installed them in my ubuntera and then as in passing, I showed her with great joy what well they worked. Since she is a writer, she uses a lot of MS Office (change control) so the only "difficult" thing I had to install was Wine.
Step 3:
Assess your dissatisfaction with your current OS: This was the least difficult, since despite the fact that Windows 7 is one of the best things that Microsoft has done, the computer crashed a lot, it was very slow because of the stupid antivirus and it had pointless problems (such as a bug in cyclical redundancy), so more more than less I was sick of having to put up with all that. So in that sense, it was just enough to give him a little push.
Duck 4:
Leave support for Windows: Actually, I never denied him technical assistance but I did let him know how tremendously difficult it was for me to fix Windows and that next time I would have to call a technician. (Which made her furious because then she married a nerd?)
Step 5:
The final lunge: After seeing her suffer and suffer (and cry and kick) with Windows and after seeing her see me happy and content using Ubuntu, I was left with nothing more than - as in the past - to subtly suggest that she switch to Linux. So at that moment, I could taste the victory, in fact, that day I remember that it was sunny all day and that my dogs did not bark even once.
Step 6:
Install Ubuntu: Something so easy that I don't even tell them.
Conclusion:
From this, about 2 long years have passed and the truth is that my wife is very happy. Ever since he switched to Ubuntu, he hates Windows and vowed never to use it again. Unfortunately in your work you have to use MacOS, but even though it is a proprietary system, it can be said that it is acceptable. On the other hand, we know that not everything is honey on flakes, Ubuntu is not perfect (uffffffffff) and Linux in general, has a long way to go on the desktop, but we fight the battles one by one.
Very good, a few days ago I was banned from the "Let's Use Linux" community, for publishing tutorials on GTK +, however, those who publish trivialities like a desktop background do not block those.
what did you expect from elav and his team?
There is no such thing as "elav and his team" if you don't know how it works DesdeLinux So you better not think that way, speaking with such a degree of ignorance should be a crime 😛
Speaking without knowing is the same as spitting feces through your mouth. And the plague comes here, so please .. keep your mouth shut if you can and look at the comment I put on Raul P ..
Did they ban you? … You mean you got banned from the community in G +?
However, I doubt it a LOT! that if they actually banned you, it was for publishing GTK tutorials, if you were kind enough to post links, photos, something that supports what you say would be perfect, otherwise they are just words that may or may not be true.
Well, no idea who it could be, or the reasons, but the Community of Let's Use Linux we do not moderate it at all. In fact, neither that nor any other.
Patricio, if I'm not mistaken LibreOffice Writer also has change control, you just have to save the document as a new version and with a click on the drop-down you go from one version to another, they are shown well ordered by dates.
Then if you say that your wife is a writer, tell her about the greatness of correcting and not having to worry about which word you stayed in, when you open the program again you will be in the same place where you left the pointer. That for a writer means half a life. Tell him what I've told you and you'll see how he doesn't even want to hear about Word.
Personal opinion: Excel is better than Calc to be honest, although most users do not need everything that Excel offers, but Writer gives Word forty laps if you know how it works well. Create a macro, format a movie script ... if you are a writer the last thing you need is Word, Writer is your word processor. So you can even uninstall the virtual machine and the happy Word without problems. My wife and I write every day and we haven't played Word in five years. We have missed absolutely nothing. If you don't know how the Versions thing works (which is similar to the change control), let us know.
Hello! Thank you very much for your comment! I tried to tell him how super good Libre Office is and he sent me flying. So I decided to be content with the move to Ubuntu, which I think is a good win.
How much evil; or;
My whole family uses Linux! I am proud that my children (7,9 and 10) have never used Windows and they handle Linux for everything. I find it difficult that at school they do not challenge them for not using Windows, since the technology teachers get angry every time they give them a task to do in Word and my daughter does it with free tools ... well ... one day they will understand the important thing to train the boys not to use pirated copies ...
Very good article.
Hahaha point 5 until I savor it: P, and if evangelization is done by example. My sister, a public accountant, has been using GNU / linux for about 7 years out of the 14 that I have been using, so she even took a liking to OpenOffice / LibreOffice. So in these not very complex environments it is more than possible to pass without so much drama.
Greetings ..
Henry
At home I did the same, but using Mint. So the environment was not a problem. Also, my wife does not depend on any particular application or function. At my mother-in-law's house I reinstalled Windows XP three times and in the end I rebelled, I installed Linux Mint and it has been working without problems for almost 4 years.
If it was your mother-in-law, you should have installed windows 95 ..
I loved the article. I am at point 3. I will have to go to 4 I see that it worked very well for you !!!
All the best
Nah, what a chanta, you could have fixed the windows and that's it. Just as well, the more people use it, the better Linux is going to be.
To convince my father it was very simple (he is somewhat curmudgeonly)
the constant updates of windows were a nuisance for him since they did not allow him to use the pc all the time, that was enough to convince him
Good article, although I differ a bit, I do not force anyone to change, I have been a linux user for years although I have always had to use different systems day by day out of necessity and I have tried to get people to leave windows but only those who have certain computer knowledge given Because the user out of this world finds the system of managing linux tedious, the use of the terminal discourages many people, although it is easy for us to understand how it works for the average user, the truth is that they are lazy. Personally, linux in various distributions and if they like it, that's good, and if not, most people don't care if it's free or not, since they will never touch the code and they care little if it's legal or not to share it in the end most will share the programs whether it is "original", "pirate" or free
* personally linux = personally I show you several linux distributions
Even more difficult than understanding the console is understanding your writing, my friend. You have only used a period and two commas in everything you have written, I barely managed to see three tildes, perhaps there are more.
I could agree with you, but the truth is that I have not understood that you meant: "personally linux in various distributions ..." Linux in various distributions?
Regards,
P.S. It is not the same "he" and "eh".
Nice article, I did something similar, although I added my parents 😀 😀
To my in-laws, I made them use Libre Office, I am missing the step of changing OS 😉
I was never able to get my wife to switch to GNU / Linux, although at least I had her try it. You will be fed up with your MS Windows. I really identified with your article, I really enjoyed it. Pure Life! Greetings from Costa Rica.
I didn't even try to persuade my wife. Mine was more Uncle Sam style: I formatted everything and swapped w7 for Chakra Linux without telling you.
As I am democratic, I allowed her to complain for a little while and left her alone with the pc for an afternoon ...
When I got back I found her poking around in calligra author and saying "aaaaahh, look" when she discovered a new trick. Then he said "hmm, it's cute and it's faster ... is this Linux?" Since then we are on our honeymoon again.
Today
I have enjoyed reading it, I am also a linux follower, unfortunately for me, I have to resort to some windows applications, by language and because I do not know how to use terminal downloads.
There are distributions that carry many applications. the bad thing is when I need some. if I find it does not load. and if it loads I don't understand the language. I rant about linux and go back to windows cursing him for needing it.
Search the web for "linux cube images", you will find cube models for Suse, Arch, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu with the basic commands of each distro; there it says how to install packages from the terminal.
Tell me the 5 most important questions you have and I will clarify them in an article. Cheers!
Mine was easier, my uncles already sent me such old pots to fix that I couldn't even find the drivers for Windows, so I put them in a Pussycat and challenged them to find the happy drivers ...
My aunt convinced my uncle and that's how they go, unfortunately they have to use Windows to control the security of their store ... I know what you all think, Windows and security ... What the fu ...?, It's because of the security company they have hired, luckily they only use one team for that.
I just need to convince my sister, but since her team is from a company, someone else eats the boil ...
I have had to keep a notebook with Windows 7, much to my regret. At home there are two others that are using Linux Mint, but I have not found an application to replace Rocket MP3, which I use relatively frequently and have not yet been able to replace. Everything else has already been replaced.
By the way, I installed Wine and it doesn't work well for me ... It hangs.
regards
Rocket MP3? is the program to download from youtube? If that is so, you have not one but several in GNU / Linux, for example the one that I use YouTube DL GUI, download the videos in the quality you want and also the audios in the quality you want or both and not only from YouTube.
If I'm wrong, correct me.
Precisely what I want to do is what you say ... I use the mp3 Rocket for that, to download audios found on YouTube. I'll look for the program you tell me and I'll try it ...
Thank you.
You use youtube dlp and that's it. The syntax is very easy to learn and you only need to run 3 commands to install it:
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install python3
sudo pip install --trusted-host pypi.org yt-dlp
On Windows, download the release from github and install by hand the dependencies that the program asks for.
yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCdA4bJAGGk -x --audio-format opus --no-keep-video
This is how you download a great song.
If you use Firefox on Linux you can add this add-on to it:
http://www.youtube-mp3.org/
You download the audio of the YouTube videos, you can even use youtube-dl and with the option -x etc ... and you only download the audio
You can also use SoundConverter in Linux and you only extract the audio from the downloaded videos with youtube-dl or with other programs, you can even use Audacity and extract the audio ...
Cheers !!!
Friend, the best option is youtube-dl, there is a graphical interface as mentioned above, you will have to look for it if you do not want to use the console, which is more immediate I think. Anyway, if you decide on this last option (console), here is a very good tutorial from Elav, about this topic ...
https://blog.desdelinux.net/youtube-dl-tips-que-no-sabias/
With jdownloader you put the youtube url and it gives you the option to download everything, audios and videos found in said url, in different qualities that it has.
Greetings.
Hello! You can enter http://www.youtube-mp3.org, put the link of the video and download it in mp3. Everything from there and it doesn't matter where you do it. A greeting!
I have not said a word to my family about the wonderful benefits of Linux, and last week they asked me to delete windows 7 from my father's computer and the other from my older brother…. Obviously I did and installed Ubuntu 14.04
My friends and people close to me almost all, thanks to me, who are many, use any derivative of Ubuntu (especially Mint, Kubuntu and Lubuntu)
Actually Linux is the best thing that has happened to me in my life [Technologically speaking] and I am one of those who promote it like the one who wrote this article ...
And people who have not dared to venture into Linux, I have installed [or recommended] free programs such as Gimp, Clementine, VLC, or LibreOffice, etc ...
LONG LIVE THE OPEN SOURCE AND GNU / LINUX !!!
Hahaha what a story ... I have mine too but anyway, I will not tell it, I will only say that in my family for not having problems with viruses and other things, I installed Xubuntu, my brother hated it at first, but later he could use everything that he used previously, mainly Macromedia Flash with Wine to make animations, I met my current partner using ubuntu with gnome 2, now he uses Ubuntu Mate, his mother is a computer science teacher and uses Ubuntu in her classes, and I happily use Windows haha re garca ... naa lie I use Fedora and ubuntu.
A very good technique is to put the new computer only with GNU / Linux and the old with Windows.
I lied to them, I told them it was windows with another skin or theme and voila, if you ask them they use windows but actually they use ubuntu with gnome and open office
Hahahaha that was better!
My wife has been using Linux (PcLinuxOs) for more than 10 years, at first it did bother her a bit but now, she doesn't use Windows at all. During that time she has never had a problem with viruses or anything else that causes problems. The main TV in the living room has a computer connected with a video card with HDMI output and we enjoy high definition without problems with ads or anything like that. Both she and I are very happy with Linux.
Windows doesn't need antivirus, just smart users. And Linux needs geeks, which is even more difficult to become.
Thanks cunt
I am an advanced user, a geek would consider myself and I study computer engineering but honestly I still do not see the chicha to Linux
I have 2 Windows PCs and one with Guadalinex, and this summer I am going to fix some PCs and I will leave one of the systems that they have (WinXP, I don't care that it is obsolete, the most I am going to do is play at age with him) and to another I want to put something light Linux (recommendations please ^^)
What I do not see as normal for Linux users is that you want everyone to switch to Linux, if you like it then better for you, I use Linux (as I said) and I do not dislike it, but I find some actions not very intuitive.
As the one above said, with intelligent users, you don't need antivirus in Windows (I have Panda Free, which consumes less than Openoffice and because I share the PC), you only need intelligent users, and in Linux geeks
And if everyone went to Linux it would end up as rotten with Malware as this Windows, but look at Android that uses Linux kernel
Greetings ~
I liked the note. I have been installing Linux for a few years with friends and relatives who had me as their private technician (free of course). One day I got tired of fixing their windows and I went on a sit-down strike and quit collaboration. The only solution that I offer you is to rescue the valuable information, format, install a Linux distribution and a brief tour of the applications that you are going to use according to your user profile. 90% are very happy with their new OS.
Point 2 is not passed. Damn pharmacopoeias that are distributed as executables!
Remember that Linux is not a religion, therefore, do not force people to use a Linux distribution to see how good it is, if the person likes it and is satisfied with Linux on their PC, well, otherwise Well, only look good with yourself because at least Linux was presented as an alternative operating system to Windows
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At home we have been using Xubuntu for 3 years now and the truth is that we gave a second life to all those computers that were about to "expire" because they were not very powerful.
Happy as a partridge.
The truth is that I have had enough fun, I love your blog, keep it up!
PS: I managed to convince my mother xD
I didn't like the illustration that comes with this post, it seems extremely macho.
Hello! Now that I think about it, possibly I am a macho, which makes me feel bad and chale, please apologize if I offended someone.
On the other hand - and it is not to justify myself - when choosing the image I thought about my wife, who, unless she has a sudo command, it would be impossible for me to give her an order.
Anyway, lately I've become a bit feminist, so I always try to be correct on gender issues, but maybe machismo is something too ingrained to just shake it off.
Regards!
Hello, I honestly don't see why you are macho. He is a stick figure, I don't know where you got that the one who obeys is a woman, it hadn't even occurred to me.
If the puppet wears a skirt, he would understand, we will leave the Scots aside lol.
Anyway, maybe some detail escapes me.
All the best
This story is perfectly framed within «gender violence» 🙂
I think the 'sudo' command is not bad as long as it is not accompanied by the 'kill' command ...
In my case, she didn't have a computer, and she used mine with Linux, she always told me I learned with Windows and I want Windows, and I preached to her that Linux was better, as time passed I bought her the netbook that she wanted and it came with the great and wonderful windows starter (sarcasm), and she said: "I don't want viruses on my pc, install linux." This was in 2008.
Dnd Patricio, that's what we're here for. If your wife is more comfortable writing in Word, she should continue to do so. Each one has to use what works best for him and with what he obtains the best results according to his needs and criteria. Word is also a great word processor, no doubt.
Well, if I had written this article I would have no doubt titled it: "How did I get my dickhead husband to use GNU / Linux?" And the rest, very short: I did it because: 1) the computer is mine, 2) he has no f… idea of computing and 3) I use the OS that I want for the first reason. Ahhh, and there is one 4) ... that does not dare to touch the computer because otherwise there will be no "make" that is worth it !!!
Hello! It is not to offend but, I know what you put is cool, although for some reason I did not understand the joke. Exactly what do you mean? (If it's some kind of gender bullshit, it'd be great if we discussed it because I've been really into it lately)
Regards!
Hahahahahaha linuXgirl! It is understood!
Majo, I was joking ... because of the mess that your article "sounded" macho. Take it easy, I actually really liked the article, really.
Hahahaha, what a good anecdote. How many of us have gone through a similar situation?
About this I can say.
I was also strongly convinced of the need to "evangelize" others to bring them to use Linux.
I have determined, however, that the best use people I know ** can make of GNU-Linux is to surf the web. In that, Windows does not exceed Linux-Desktop, due to the security that Linux offers.
My friends who have offices, some of me got them to install Linux, and they had to go back to Windows for two things: a-The multitude of devices they had connected to their work computers were not all compatible with Linux; b. Some of the computers that were compatible with Linux had lower quality drivers available than the ones that come for Windows, and the experience using them on a Linux system, therefore, was inferior-more complicated-lower quality.
4.Free Office, for those who use Ms Word intensively, it seems very inferior to the Windows solution. They showed me errors and bugs in Libre Office that I couldn't deny. The huge advantage that Libre Office had so many features and was free did not seem to compensate them.
In conclusion, I must clarify that my friends who installed Linux were really excited about this system. In the first days of using it his desire to stay on the platform grew, or so I thought I noticed. The connectivity problems with peripherals, bugs in some key programs for productivity and the inability to work with certain devices ended up driving them away from Linux.
After that experience, I still strongly recommend Linux BUT specifically to people whose computing life revolves around viewing an email, entering their social networks, surfing the Internet, searching something on Google, downloading movies and things like that. Myself, I have switched to using Windows on a partition. I bought the license to use it legally. I use Windows 8.1. Today I have a computer with many peripherals, it is a whole workstation. I handle document printing, scanners and everything else with much better performance and added flaws in Windows than in Linux. And I practice what I preach, for productivity and compatibility, as well as for the use of apps in the Windows environment, I use Windows. For my extended web life, when it comes to distraction, information, recreation, socialization, multimedia consumption, I use Linux.
That is the reality for me. For the desktop (productive in offices), due to the problems outlined above, Linux is not completely Ready. When a friend who studies advertising or architecture, or who is a DJ, can use the professional applications with which they learned their art in Linux; When the hardware drivers for Linux are super abundant and quality equivalent to Windows, then I will recommend Linux-Desktop to my friends who have various productive and crucial activities, in the meantime, I only recommend it as the strongest system to navigate in the web, which is completely ready for that. And that's what I use it for.
Too bad that it only serves to surf the web for you. I am a civil engineer and I use Linux for everything. I have many peripherals connected to the workstation, even a Plotter works perfectly for me. As a curiosity, I comment that my Plotter behaves better on my Linux than on a Windows station: plans and photographs are plotted faster and with more fidelity to the color they show on the screen! _as it is seen in my monitor linux like this is printed, which in windows is distorted.
Of the LibreOffice office suite that I tell you that those who use it do not know: Writer, for me it has an advantage over Word: My documents are technical and made with the ISO standard, they are not college letters. Calc works for me for budgets, Excel? it's not superior at all, not even its macros. I have old Excel spreadsheets with macros ... of course, macros in vbasic are proper to excel ... in Calc, if I simply want a macro, I even program it in python, a language that excel does not support ...
I do not accept that macros are an advantage in excel because whoever wants to can program very complex macros in Calc and that does not detract from its competitor ...
AutoCAD? I still use it in a virtual machine.
I stopped wasting time performing maintenance on my pc, I forgot about viruses, antivirus, malware, spyware, firewalls, etc etc ... I turn on my workstation and produce ... do I need ACAD or other software exclusively for windows? .. in 5 seconds the virtual machine is ready….
In conclusion, for me, I am a professional and I need a productive environment on my computer, Linux is perfect for me
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