Good opservation. That bring us to the point of Is windows really user freindly. the answer to that is a simple No. What Windows has going for it and the *nix GUI that emulate is called easy of familiarity. Every one expcets it to be a pain in the ass acertain way and are used to doing things that way, so that anything else that emulates that is then "user friendly"
EVan On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:02:38 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
