 I get it, some of you guys really love Linux, you're passionate about Linux, and you're trying to convert all your friends and family over from Windows or Mac over to Linux. And that's cool. But some of you guys are going about this completely the wrong way. And I've witnessed this personally and it's the purpose of this quick vlog today. It's because I've seen people actually turn people away from Linux by having the wrong sales pitch. So I saw this with a person I know that is a Linux enthusiast and they were trying to convince one of their family members to use Linux. And this person that was trying to convince them was passionate, was one of these window manager users and then they installed whatever Linux distribution for their family member and then they were trying to explain to them why to use this favorite telling window manager of theirs and you're going to love it. Let me show you all the features to a brand new Linux user. I'm talking about day one Linux user. You're trying to explain everything about a standalone window manager to a brand new Linux user. What happened? This brand new Linux user did not become a Linux user. You could tell the whole time this person was trying to explain this to them like their eyes glazed over like I don't understand any of this and this person is just running for 5, 10, 15 minutes straight about stuff I don't understand. Let me get the hell back to Windows. So this person will leave me alone. So guys, keep it short, keep it simple for what I do because I've had a lot of success converting friends and family and just complete strangers over to Linux. It's, you know, when they have a broken Windows laptop, virus riddled laptop, things are slow. Just tell them to bring it to you, install a new user or appropriate Linux distribution. It doesn't matter what it is, just install it for them, give it back to them, give them that laptop back and just let them figure things out on their own. They'll figure it out on their own. If you tried to cram all of your years of Linux knowledge in like 30 minutes, I'm trying to explain to a new user all about Linux, they can't handle that. You didn't understand everything on day one. There's no way they're going to understand everything on day one. Just slow it way down. Otherwise, all you're doing is you're pushing these people back to Windows and they're going to remember that horrible day that someone was really pushy and tried to explain to stuff to them that they didn't even care about and they're just going to avoid us. They're going to think we're all crazy and the next time somebody tries to give them that same Linux sales pitch, they're not going to bother trying to hear that at all because they had such a bad time the first time. So don't be one of those kinds of people. A lot of people, it's just human nature. A lot of people want to seem smart, like I've got all this knowledge that I've acquired. Let me share it with you because it makes me feel superior in some way, right? Because I know so much about Linux. Let me impress you with my big brain. Don't be one of those people. Again, just have them bring that laptop to you, install Ubuntu, Mint, whatever on it, MX, anything that's new user appropriate, give it back to them and just let them go and I promise you, they'll be all right. They'll figure it out. I've done this dozens of times, probably hundreds of times and I've never had a problem. I've never had somebody come back to me or give me a phone call or whatever and say, hey, you know what? That didn't work out. That was horrible. I can't believe you did that to me. Most of them actually phoned me back and say, well, this is great. You fixed my laptop. This new Windows that you put on it is awesome. And that's OK. They'll eventually figure out that it's not Windows. Let them figure that out. But again, I don't try to just be overwhelming with all of that information up front. All right, guys. Peace.