On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Nitebirdz wrote:
>
> > Again, I'm a big supporter of Linux and open source in general. I am
> > _convinced_ that Linux will sooner or later win the desktop market
> > too. However, I cannot in good faith deny that Windows is more
> > user-friendly right now.
>
> How so?
> If a user limits himself to doing only slightly more than what he can do
> in Windows (use KDE 2.0 exclusively (with konsole and friends disabled,
> of course), run autologin (http://www.linux-easy.com/development.php) to
> log in as root all the time [I know that's stupid, but it's basically what
> Windows does, and avoids the need to learn anything about permissions],
> reboot every time something doesn't work right (instead of starting the
> service), how is Linux more difficult?
>
> (This was a serious question, not a rhetoric one. If you can list a couple
> of points, maybe they can be fixed...)
>
Try to have your mom configure the printer in the Linux box and then tell
me what happens. Or even better, configure a scanner or a simple
modem... or try to change the screen resolution. Those are all simple
things in Windows.
Again, please do not believe that I'm defending Microsoft products as a
solution here. However, it wouldn't be honest for me to maintain that
Linux is just as easy as Windows right now.
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