Halo Sopo !!! 23 years ago I was using a PC in my business, along with a colour monitor, and I was not an IT specialist. Even then there was a choice between DOS and Unix. But today everyone needs to access a computer and the 'net. Everyone needs to understand the computer they are driving. At this moment the only foolproof, desktop , system that I know of, within my limited scope is Ubuntu Linux . Windows, any flavour. is scary. Viruses, spyware, and just plain lousy code plague MS Windows. Bill Gates is the wealthiest man in the world, does he give a damn about lousy code ? Linux does work. Perhaps the only aspect of computer use is that we should trust is Linux. Flawed as it may be Linux s the only answer on the horizon . Allen
On 7/13/06, sopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MARCO: > you're forgetting that 15 years ago computers were only used by IT > specialists. nowdays a computer is like a car, or a washing machine - > everybody NEEDS to use it to get something done, they don't need to LIKE it > or understand it. > you can't ask a secretary who just needs to answer e-mails and type > documents to understand why her box won't hybernate. it's the IT > specialist's job to make it hybernate when she pushes that particular > button. > and sadly in linux this and many other things don't "just work" yet the > way our little secretary would expect it. > sure, you don't need to be a specialist to understand these things, but > you have to at least like them and be interested in them. but if you're > neither they just nned to work. > and it can't be considered ignorance if someone isn't interested in > computers. we can't all have the same hobbies, can we? > you don't expect everyone to understand how an internal combustion engine > works, or what the effects of a short shift gearbox are, but everyone > expects a car to work as advertised. > > PS: you can substitute "secretary" for any other job you like, because > everybody is more or less relying on a computer to get something done > > PS2: this is NOT a pro-MS statement, i'm just saying that linux still > needs alot of work to be done on the "works out of the box" factor > > -- > Microsoft has a majority market share > https://launchpad.net/bugs/1 > -- http://adventures-with-the-rascals.blogspot.com/ -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://launchpad.net/bugs/1 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
