Damon Chesser wrote:
On Sunday 24 July 2005 14:08, Nate Duehr wrote:
Damon Chesser wrote:
I'm perfectly able to script such a thing, but the average
user shouldn't be expected to do so.
Of course not, but the average user does not set this up anyway, the IT
geek that gives him or her the box does.
The idea of "someone setting up the box for them" is quaint and
old-fashioned.
Tell that to the hundreds of Sales men and Office workers, all of which I set
up their boxes. Not to even list all the times I told them how to set up
their private home networks with wireless (set up like work, so I don't have
to play with any settings). I think what most people forget is that most
computers sold are NOT to private people but to business and those folks
almost never set up their own.
Are they using OSX (which was the original point in this thread)?
People buy computers and set them up themselves these
days, for better or for worse.
(and promptly corner me at work and ask me how to set up the wireless so their
work laptop will work at home). Just my experience, that is no guarantee of
truth but only what I have found. Your experience could be different.
Do you find that they're just looking for assurances that they won't
"mess anything up" and they do the work themselves, or do you have to
always travel to their homes and actually set things up for them?
All I'm saying is that the tools are out there and even "Joe Salesman"
*can* set up his own equipment these days. Linux is horribly behind on
these basic concepts today.
When it was difficult to set up basic networking on all OS's, it was
reasonable that it required quite a bit of thought on Linux. Today, OSX
and arguably Windows XP make setting up even a basic wireless network a
breeze. Linux should be there too.
There's lots of reasons as to why that's not true, all I'm saying is
that the current situation is that Linux and most distros (including
Debian, but not limited to it) are very far behind on this capability.
Nate
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