On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:02:30 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > You're confusing using with administering. Yes, administering a Linux > > system takes more knowledge than clicking a few buttons in Windows, > > but using a correctly setup system is no harder with Linux, even > > Gentoo, than Windows. My partner is about as computer-illiterate as > > they come, but she uses a Gentoo system. She runs apps, not a desktop > > and not an operating system. She uses KDE, not because she prefers > > it, but because it's what I use, so it was the easiest one for me to > > show her around. But as long as her mailer, browser and office > > programs work, she doesn't care what's underneath. This is someone so > > technophobic that she cannot use a VCR, but Linux is not hard to use > > for her.
> Neil, > But to use it you have to set it up, right? ;-) Wrong. someone has to set it up, but it doesn't have to be the user. > I'm not confusing administering a system with using a system. > Although my skill set is permanantly locked somewhere around the 6 out > of 10 level I do understand that difference. I also understand what > it's like on the other side. I administer not only my own Gentoo > systems (numbering 3) but I also administer my wife's Gentoo box, my > son's Fedora box, my father's Gentoo box and 4 Pundit-R's that are > used as MythTV frontend machines. I get the difference. I love Gentoo, > and Linux in general, but it took a long time. See, you are the admin, your wife etc. are users. they don't care about the ins and outs of the system, only what they can do with it. > The point is that not a single one of those people could even begin > to take a Gentoo CD and end up with a running system, or if they did > it would take weeks. Why would they need to, they have you for that :) -- Neil Bothwick OPERATOR ERROR: Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah!
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