There is also another perspective here, Google and Mozilla are providing a option for those that don't want to bother with loading, installing, and maintaining an OS. Chromebooks and the like might make all OS's for the enthusiast.
Shane On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:50:18PM +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > > > An OS that is difficult to install is not a friendly OS. People > understand this. > > > > True. And most people understand it so well that they will not even > > attempt to install an OS - they get the computers with the OS > > pre-installed. Surely it does not get easier than this! We may well > > disagree with their (possibly uninformed) choice of OS, but from their > > point of view, it is "easier". > > > I say False. Difficult to install perhaps means it has an unfriendly > installer. Most people who can't install Debian probably couldn't > install Windows either, and as Karl pointed out, most people don't even > try. > > The OP who wants to recommend Linux will probably assist with the > installations, I imagine. > > -Rob > > > -- > 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/20130226233014.gb1...@aurora.owens.net > > -- Shane D. Johnson IT Administrator Rasmussen Equipment
