I have my mother running Linux and I am slowly
converting a legal office over to it. There is nothing
wrong with the Linux desktop. It is more than capable
of handling most issues, and openoffice looks very
promising as filling in the office suite niche. If
Wordperfect did quick words in Linux and would allow
to send to qtcups for printing, then it would be fine
since the office currently uses wordperfect.
I don't think having a simple setup option for newbies
would prevent more experienced users going for the
workstation setup.
--- Jason Straight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 04 August 2001 16:25, you wrote:
> > As i believe was the original poster of this
> thread's intent, i was just
> > also trying to see the "Linux experience" from the
> point of view of a
> > person trying it out for the first time, to see
> whether it would be OK as
> > replacement for a certain OS for day-to-day use
> (not for a singular use,
> > say, as a server). From the installation process,
> configuration,
> > ease-of-use, availability of suitable replacement
> for apps that i would be
> > normally using with the other OS, etc.
> >
> > cheers,
>
> Yeah, but personally I find it offensive that people
> try to judge linux for
> the desktop and push it to be something it's not.
> Linux has made it as far as
> it has on it's individuality and now that linux is
> in the limelight everyone
> wants to change it to make dummy distro's that Joe
> Blow with an IQ of 60
> could install. Which I actually don't have a problem
> with, but I don't want
> to see any linux distro stupidify itself for the
> under endowed at the expense
> of taking away the power that makes it linux for all
> the power users and
> linux savvy users that have brought it where it is
> today.
>
> It irks me as it would to hear people complaining
> that airplanes aren't easy
> enough to fly, or it's too hard to read your webpage
> you should make it with
> bigger letters for nearly blind people, or less big
> words for stupid people,
> or less packages for lazy people, or less options
> for impatient people, or
> ....
>
>
> As it is I think mdk offers what it offers which is
> a lot because that
> guarantees that it has more of the things people
> want, it also means there's
> more of what they don't, but it's easier to deslect
> packages (cumbersome as
> it might be) than it is if you get another unix and
> have to download and
> compile kde 2.2, mozilla, X4.1, gcc 3.0, etc... mdk
> has a lot of stuff on
> those CD's so you don't have to go download them,
> with a lot of packages
> there are bound to be a seemingly overwhelming
> number of options during
> install. And there are a lot of dependancies in mdk
> that some other distro's
> don't have because mdk compiles support for other
> packages into a lot of
> things to enhance it's abilities.
>
> I just personally would be pissed to see mdk take
> away packages and my
> ability to customize my install to cater to the
> ignorant, so mandrake being
> my distro of choice I feel the need to protect that
> :)
>
> Most of this of course is more directed to the orig
> poster.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jason Straight
> BlazeConnect
> President
> Phone: 231-597-0376
> Fax: 231-597-0393
>
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