[geeks] Q: Regarding Linux in K-12 education

[Lionel Peterson]

On Jan 17, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Mike Meredith <very at zonky.org> wrote:

> And I've seen Windows-only users adapt very easily to using Linux.
> Admittedly it's probably easiest when they _want_ to switch rather  
> than
> when they're being made to switch, but this concept that basic Linux
> desktop use is hard is plainly ridiculous.
>
> (Managing a Linux desktop may well be a different matter, but that
> wouldn't be done by the average user in an educational environment)

The teaching users the new environment wouldn't be that hard, but  
replacing lost apps when leaving Windows/OS X would be a serious  
problem. Management of 1,700 desktops in Linux would be 'interesting.'

Lionel