[dropping techtalk 'cause this is OT there]
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 06:03:39PM -0400, Michelle Murrain wrote:
> At 12:39 PM -0400 6/4/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > OK, I had to download some drivers and recompile the
> >kernel to make the PCMCIA floppy work on the two Librettos I have, but even
> >that wasn't hard with the tools and instructions Red Hat kindly provides.
>
> Please listen at what you just said. For most people on this list (me
> included) doing that is a cakewalk, or close to it. For how many
> people is this true?
[lotsa snippage]
> Part of this is not about defending Linux. I don't think it needs
> defending. It's about an honest assessment of its weaknesses, so that
> it *can* end up managing to make it on the desktop. I figure that if
> I am getting frustrated enough with it, and spending more time
> futzing with my installation (which I happen to enjoy), than getting
> work done, how are people who are already pretty sold on Windows
> going to look at it?
Yeah. :-)
Linux *is* weak in some areas, and accessibility to beginners is one
of them. I went through a steep learning curve to know the bit I know
now, and there's still lots I don't know. That's a fact.
For me, the benefits outweight the pain, hugely. No contest. But that
isn't true for many other people who don't enjoy fudging with their
conf files, and enjoy computing as a hobby in its own right. In our
zeal to defeat the behemoth of Redmond, we all hate to admit the ways
that Windows is better than Linux. But we have to be honest about the
state of Linux, if we are to improve it.
Remember the mindcraft fiasco?
--
Dr. David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Collection Editor & Coordinator http://www.linuxdoc.org
How can you work when the system's so crowded?
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