Comment Re:The solution! (Score 1) 595
You know one of the easiest ways to make life simpler for people new to GNU/Linux? Just calling it fucking *Linux* rather than being pedantic.
When someone who doesn't know much about computers asks you, "What does your computer run?" do you answer simply with "Windows" or "Apple Mac" or perhaps "Linux" - which they would understand - or do you go into geek-mode and say, "A custom hybrid GNU/Linux slackware-ubuntu distribution running the 2.6 kernel with KDE and WindowMaker"?
Leave the GNU/ part out of it. We all know what you mean, and those that don't, well - they just don't give a crap.
When someone who doesn't know much about computers asks you, "What does your computer run?" do you answer simply with "Windows" or "Apple Mac" or perhaps "Linux" - which they would understand - or do you go into geek-mode and say, "A custom hybrid GNU/Linux slackware-ubuntu distribution running the 2.6 kernel with KDE and WindowMaker"?
Leave the GNU/ part out of it. We all know what you mean, and those that don't, well - they just don't give a crap.
