Speaking of converting people to Linux

Wouter Verhelst: Conversion in progress http://www.grep.be/blog/2006/10/24#conversion_in_progress

Excerpt: Sometimes the things you want don't happen until you stop trying so hard.

For as long as we've had Intel-compatible computers here at home, my parents have been running Windows. At first I didn't care—this was before I had even heard about Linux, let alone install it—but as I became more and more involved in Linux, I wanted more and more for them to make the change, too. Especially given how I'm still supposed to be responsible for making sure their machine keeps running; if I wasn't, I wouldn't care as much.

These are the approaches I've taken to try to convert them, and why they failed: