Am Die, 2003-03-25 um 05.58 schrieb Nathan E Norman: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:30:10PM +1100, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > > | Marc, the original poster clearly had a problem that went way beyond not > > | being able to install Debian, but in charity there is no excess. And it > > | will do no good to make Debian less easy because he was annoying. > > > > I've looked after windows boxes for many years, windows users find it quite > > difficult. Many shudder at the thought of installing anything. Most machines > > I look at for the first time are in a horribly unstable condition, networks > > too for that matter. I'm sorry but in my very limited experience with linux > > i can't see it as any more difficult than windows. The major difference > > would be that windows hides/ignores conflicts etc, I don't think linux does, > > does it? > > In fact, linux forces you to confront problems; this shocks many users > who are used to being told "oh no, everything's ok" as fires rage in > the engine room.
Right! Linux will even tell you when your "Printer is on fire" ;) -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice
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