On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:

> Where Linux won't happen on the desktop in any big way is in the home.
> Configuration is too difficult. Until all configuration for a standard
> home machine can be handled in gui apps somewhere it won't work since
> Grandma and her 7 year old grand daughter cannot be expect to run vi.

RH pretty much has all of that covered with their own GUI tools.
Likewise for SuSE. Gentoo doesn't come with its own GUI tools but then I
dont look at Gentoo as a mainstream desktop Linux OS.

> Kids are very adaptable. They will complain but it stops pretty
> quickly.

Most of the costs of support centers are for those old folks who never
grew up with computers.


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