On normal people using linux, part 3 – Annia Zacchi September 12, 2014

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Another friend approached me to get rid of Windows, the problem was vulnerabilities and virus. She was an artist for life and paint, so I explained to her that Adobe no more and she didn’t really feel moved by that so I tougth “hm… this can work out”.

So, I got archl inux[1] installed on her computer, explained her a bit of the stuff and told her “anything you need, just ask.”, strangelly, nothing she asked for one month, and since I had moved from jobs to another state, I tougth that she had come back to the windows-side of the force. “Hey annya?”, “Hey”, “How are things up there with linux?”, “Well, it’s great actually. I’m using windows only to play LoL”, “oh, cool, I tougth you hade come back to windows because you never asked me anything, actually”, “No, that wiki that you pointed me out is really good. so I started reading it a lot, and krita, OH GOD. that program is amazing.”

I was shocked. Literally shocked. I know that linux is not that easy for newcommers, and I’v installed linux for a lot of newcomers, but this was the first newcommer that didn’t had trouble using it because SHE HAS READ THE WIKIS AND TRIED TO LEARN. What if everybody could do that, this could go soooo beautiully.

“And you didn’t had any problems?”, “Well, my tablet doesn’t work with the system libraries, so I went to the website, got the drivers source, compiled and blacklisted the system ones, so nothing anymore.” whow. WHOW.

I really wanted that all my users were like her. This is also a plus, what krita can do if you are a good artist, drawings by Annia Zacchi

Usually I write more, but my broken feet is hurting so much that I can’t think straigth. 🙂