Eliran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Some windows users (that I know) *don't* know how to install the OS. > If we want these kind of users to use linux, we at least should make the > installation easier. >
For the record, me and another member of this list were paid for aprox. 3 years for building and maitaining a system that allowed one of the biggest OEMs in the world (at least at the time) to install Windows machines. Moreover, the company we worked for was paid millions for this job by the OEM because the OEM engineering core tried to do the same (they used to install Win3.11 machines by building one system, setting it up right and mass copying the HD. With win95 they couldn't do that anymore) and the failure was such that certain people that worked for that OEM still carry the scares up till this day... :-) Now, why was that? where they stupid? well maybe so, but this wasn't the reason. After building such a system myself I can honestly say that it's one HELL of a difficult job and very easy to get wrong. VERY wrong. So.. not only Windows is not easy for mundanes to install, even proffesional find it difficult to install (at least in an automated fashion and in big quantaties). The only reason most people don't see this is because they get their machines installed already by automatic systems that were written by highly paid profesionals. And even then it sometimes doesn't work. Linux is so much *easier* to install then Windows it's not even funny and I truly feel I can say this with confidence in light of my exprienece. As for the 'Linux Lost' hugwash, I see where all my Windows-centric *programers* friends ended up working (if at all) and I see where I and other Linux people work and I know that *we* have won and will continue to win. All the rest is just intertia. Microsoft rose because of *develpers* and it goes down because of them too. It just takes time. Sorry Hetz old buddy, nothing personal... Cheers, Gilad. -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://benyossef.com "Money talks, bullshit walks and GNU awks." -- Shachar "Sun" Shemesh, debt collector for the GNU/Yakuza ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
