My son is a technical illiterate and one time, when I had got tired of rescuing his scsrewed-up (often virus-infected) Windows box, I gave him Ubuntu. He only uses his computer to surf to his webmail and to facebook. Nonetheless, he came to me after a week and asked me to re-install Windows as he 'didn't understand how to use linux'. So now I have an iso of his disk which I reinstall as necessary. There's never anything on the actual disk other than the operating system.
James On 2015-07-19 02:02, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > On 07/18/2015 11:54 AM, charles meyer wrote: >> Hi Jack, >> >> You’re most welcome. >> >> I think many Windows users are married to old verbiage they heard >> years ago (some unfounded) about how you’ll need to learn to code or >> have to learn language like the old DOS to make Linux work and so >> propelled by fear they remain with Windows. >> >> I’m looking forward to all the good work and advancement Eric (on this >> list) makes with his foray into voice recognition but can you or Gary >> on this list or others recommend any Linux-based voice recognition? >> >> Nuance has dragged their heels in so many ways including developing >> voice recognition for more than one voice at a time so I don’t feel >> like I can count on them to offer a Linux-based version by 2020 when >> MS is supposed to end W7 support. >> >> Thanks for disabusing readers of their “Linux-fear” in your article >> and for your and others voice recognition recommendations. >> >> Charles. >> > > I started with computers when punch-cards were still common and > computers smaller than a refrigerator was not. > > I wished I still remembered all the programming skills I have back > then [but that ended with the strokes]. Users are pampered with a GUI > and other "modern" items on their really small sized systems, compared > to what I started working with. You try writing a general ledger > accounting system from scratch in COBOL and then tell me that people > do not have it so easy now. Well, at least if you do not have to do > the GUI programming from scratch instead of using templates, or > needing to do AI work withing a game environment. But the basic > business stuff was much harder to produce back then when colored > printing, or even graphical printing, from a low to middle environment > business computer was not available at all. I was programming > computers for over a decade before I ever saw a colored printer, let > alone afford one. > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
