Hello, I know how hard it can be to see the forest when you are too close to the trees, so I thought I would re-post something I put up in another forum where Miguel de Icaza's recent communication was being discussed and in answer to Vaughan-Nicholl's recent article of semi-acceptance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The most 'untechie' person on the planet can use any Linux distribution once it is installed. I have sat people down at my box with Iceweasel open and they have started surfing sites immediately without anything more than a faint inkling there was anything different. And there's not much difference in how office suites and email programmes operate either. These options sum up what most people use computers for.
The reason they don't is the install procedure. Installation has made tremendous leaps forward, but the average end user doesn't have the faintest idea what partitioning is or what it's for. They have no idea of file systems and until there are FULL explanations of these two implementations in installation procedures, written on a level a primary school pupil can understand, things are not going to change. The biggest hurdle I had to overcome when I first got into Lunux was learning what cfdisc was all about and what it was for. Get rid of the hurdles and you facilitate access. With access comes acceptance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Regards, Weaver -- "The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . ." -- Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/928c0bda5efc0f17394b8f5f1d606ad3.squir...@fruiteater.riseup.net
