-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/07 11:55, Mike McCarty wrote: > I have some feedback about my GF who uses Debian at my suggestion. > I have no irons in the fire on this one, as I don't use Debian, > though I do administer her machine for her. So, please don't take > this as a complaint from me, as it isn't. I'm simply informing > the Debian forum of a situation. > > She's had four problems with using Debian on her machine, > and support response from this forum has been somewhat less > than she had hoped for. Of the four problems, one I was able
I've come to the conclusion that Debian isn't an end-user[0] distro. It should only be managed by knowledgeable geeks. [0] Grandma/SO successfully using Debian to read email, surf the web and look at photos in eog/gqview and write the occasional document in OOo or AbiWord is more of a kiosk than a GP system. > to fix up somewhat by cooking up a printer description file > for her new printer, which now works in a limited sense. One > of them we have a work around, though it isn't pleasant, and > requires me to do some physical recabling of the machine. > > The other two remain completely unfixed. Linux has limitations. Sometimes it's lack of kernel driver, sometimes it's proprietary network protocols, sometimes it's a less-fully-functional-than-Windows app, and sometimes is just that the app isn't polished. [snip] > > Anyway, she bought a copy of Windows XP a few weeks ago, and I'm > pretty sure she intends to install this weekend, since she > sent me an e-mail showing that she purchased a copy of F-Prot > for Windows. This would be a "heads up" for me, indicating > what might be on the "honey do" list for this weekend. The grass is *not* greener on the other side. Just different. She'll find that out the first time that malware sneaks past F-Prot. > I provide this only to let you know that it looks like Debian > is going to lose a user to Windows shortly, due to perceived > lack of concern over user's difficulties shown by those who do > support for Debian. I have gently nudged her in the direction of > sticking with it a little longer, and so due to my reluctance to > kill Debian she has. But things seemingly have just gone on too > long. Ubuntu. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG+WL8S9HxQb37XmcRAnRsAKCaLsFy1GhjKzQtVskdtfnbwPIbKgCg4gQd rUpu+ilOvgEcw6Q6Xj39DxM= =ugIA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]