I bought a NIC box for my in laws a year ago, started it and ran for a year and never had to fix it. The Wind 98 boxes for my sisters I always have to fix things. My in laws are in there 80's.
I am not going to get into a debate about OS's, but with the current releases of builds, the difference isn't ease of use, application availability, and common user interface. Most people know only windows and there a multiple Linux/Unix interfaces. On Sunday, December 16, 2001, at 02:58 AM, Dave Warren wrote: >> On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 19:08, Christopher Koeber wrote: >>> Your right. Unix is an excellent operating system. The one thing that > holds >>> Unix and even Linux back though is that it still isn't very easy to >>> use. > You >>> have know a lot about computers and even the OS itself to really get >>> the >>> most out of these types of systems. >> >> And you think Windows is easier? Sit a newbie down in front of a >> freshly >> installed Windows box, and I guarantee you, he won't even get his >> soundcard working. It really just depends on what you're used to. > > I put together a custom 1.4GHz box a few weeks ago. Sound worked after > the > default install, no configuration at all, no driver CDs, and my > grandmother > was able to surf, play music, all the good stuff a common user needs a > computer for. > > I don't know enough about Linux to know one way or the other. > > -- > The nice thing about standards, there is enough for everyone to have > their own. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
