031021 Tyler Cunningham wrote: > sadly Windows will remain as widly used as it is for >= 2 yr more. > so many people buy their computers from makers like Dell > and just use it for email, internet, word processing and video games. > Until major PC makers decide to start selling PCs with Linux pre-installed, > the majority just aren't going to use it.
exactly: most people decide to "buy a new computer" & accept whatever OS they find in it, which today is nearly always M$. it won't be long, however, before the salesman tells them: "We've got this one with the latest Windows 2005 for CAD 900 & there's this other one with Linux for CAD 600 ... ". that's when baron Bill's goose wb finally cooked. > Mandrake is the closest to the perfect desktop distro for new users. > once they reach 10 they'll have all the little bugs & quirks worked out no, they'll replace the 9.2 bugs'n'quirks with 10.0 bugs'n'quirks, just as they've been doing since 6.1 (smile). i'm a 100 % Linux user. i suffered from govt cuts 1996-9 & was forced to rely on my trusty XT + a university IRIX system & missed the whole Windows 95 revolution. as soon as i could afford it, i built a fairly upto-date machine, installed Win98 + Office2000, which i never used, & almost at once installed Mandrake 6.2 , which did everything i was used to on the XT + IRIX & more. later, i updated to Mdk 8.2 , then 9.0 . during the past summer, i built another much faster machine & would have installed Mdk 9.2 , but they no longer publish it on the I/net right away. so faced with a 6 wk wait & having broadband & a hi-speed machine, i decided to have a go at Gentoo, which proved very easy to install & has the extra advantage that i have just those items i really want, not 2 K packages taking up 2,5 GB with things i never use. XFCE 4.0 won't be included in Mdk 9.2 & OO 1.1 only just made it: i have both compiled for my own hardware. Gentoo Linux is the future! -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
