I’m working on a project involving Ubuntu linux and last night I showed a mate Ubuntu for the first time.

Questions ranged from “is this really free?” to “you sure you install software like that?” to “and it took you half an hour to install all of this?” to “what is open source?” to “and it runs on your old P2 450??” to “and they sent you the cd’s for free?” to “and I can save to Word .doc format, right?”…

He was gobsmacked!
I’m glad I could share it with him, as I think he walked away a convert