At 10:02 AM 8/16/99 -0700, you wrote:
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>> No they aren't. Do you know any people who don't know anything about
>> computers, who don't WANT to know anything about computers, who just want
>> to surf, get email, and do processing, who run Linux? I don't. And if you
>
> I don't know any who do, but they _could_ run Linux without a problem.
>Of course, Netscape's kind of flaky, which doesn't help, but if people
>were selling preconfigured boxes to do this, Joe average user could
>handle Linux just as well as Win9x. Even the setup isn't necessarily
>that bad--Caldera, for example, has a pretty intuitive setup
>procedure--but it's more of a pain than using it.
I guess they could if they didn't have to install it, or change video
cards, sound cards, or modems. This probably actually would include an
awful lot of Average Joes or (or Joe Averages). And if we loosen the
restriction to No New Hardware Or Reinstalls For A Year, then that's fine
too - I'm sure that in a year installation and configuration tools will
equal and probably surpass those of Windows. Good points.
