I hate to debate. However you're sucking me in. *Sigh*
shane wrote: > the real point here is that you can have the "full KDE" or the "CL only" > and about 20 flavors in between. how many can you get on most other > operating systems? ok now how many of those come with it? > Yes I'll agree with that. But I still contend its not easy to do or setup properly for the avg user. I disregard 4 year olds, they know nothing, ergo they have nothing to learn but what you present to them. IOW, we've got habits as adults & need to sometimes re-learn. It's tough. > really it is, you just have to be totally new. i never could get the > second graders i taught linux to understand why they had to know there was > a "c drive" and a "d drive" and that the d drive on one machine is a CD and > on another it the CD is "e" and....... see above :) > a _very_ large part of that is the install. if you could walk into your > local "compfryusacityeletric superstore" and try out a few windows, a few > linux and maybe a bsd before you buy, and go home with it all installed, > huge parts of that would go away. Doubtful, and the install is not the largest problem. The largest problem is the way *Nix was evolved. It wasn't meant to be anything but a distributed computing environment. So it was not meant either to be used by anything but gurus. Configuration & use aren't easy on Linux. Maybe that will change. I hope so. I mean, why do I have to edit a cfg file in *nix to get a modem to HUP & NOHUP properly(If that's a good example?). My point...I can't even give a decent example because this OS is not intuitive. Granted M$'s isn't either in some ways, however they at least *attempt* to make it so, and do well at it for the most part. I'll leave the IRQ conflicts & installation problems out of this. That's normal for any OS. > > Either way, we all will use the programs/software we find best for us. > > optimist! :-) > Ya ya, sue me ;) I am, always will be. Life's too good not to be. Femme
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