here here. Computers are to be *used* by users and installed/configured by the professionals. Even linux :)
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:17:36AM +0200, Mark Veltzer wrote: > On Saturday 12 October 2002 21:41, you wrote: > > Hi List, > > I tend to concur with Oded, > > > > The first problem is that Linux advocates usually do not understand just > > how unusable and inappropriate Linux is for the average person, which > > leads to the second problem, that there is no Linux distribution that > > works out-of-the-box like Windows does. This isn't a problem of dumb > > users, it's a design flaw in current Linux distributions. > > I beg to differ. I willing to wager that 90% of windows users NEVER install > their operating systems. Either the sys admin at the company they are at does > it or the guy who sold them their computer (or some support guy once it gets > broken) does it for them. Comparing windows ease of install with Linux is > flawed since only professionals install windows (either sellers of computers > or sys admins at companies) while we expect the average user to install Linux > (since the system came pre installed with windows and there is a very small > number of professionals who will do that work for you for pay and people do > not usually want to pay for "trying the new system out"). > > Actually Linux works much better "out of the box" than windows *** IF *** you > compare two machine which come "scratched" (nothing on the hard drive). But > since machines don't come that way it *** looks *** like windows is easier to > install. It's actually a lot harder to install and a lot messier (it takes at > *** least *** several hours and a lot of know how to put the basic things on > top of windows which comes pretty stipped down while Linux installation is > rarely more than an hour or so and comes fully loaded). > > Please Please do not confuse ease of installation of something which people > rarely install on their own (windows) with something that users are *** > required *** to install if they want to use (Linux).... > > Cheers, > mark. ================================================================= 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]
