On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 07:44, FemmeFatale wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:13 am, Dave Conroy wrote: > > > It's only a matter of time before lot'sa people will need to > > unlearn Windows, and learn somethin else. Specially with M$'s new > > fangled SA programs (price gouging scams), and the horrific security > > holes that all M$ OS's and software feature. > > -- > > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > > > a) won't happen soon enough > > b) won't happen. > > Why? Because linux will never be a desktop OS for the masses IMO. > Requires too much tech knowledge and most just want their machine to > work. Shrugs, My opinion. I know its come a long way but its still got > a longer way to go yet. > -- > Femme > I agree if you are talking DIY installs, but having just set up my 83 year old father-in-law on 8.2, I don't agree on the usability side. Anyone who doesn't know "about computers" either has a friend who installs it, or buys the machine with the OS (W$) preinstalled. Ask the average user to install W$ from scratch and the gotchas would come just as fast as they do with Mandrake.
So this is the real difference from my viewpoint. The guy next door knows about W$, but not about linux. Given someone like me to set it up and provide an icon for each thing you want to do, Mandrake is not a problem for the novice. It's a telling point that having changed the 83 year old over to linux from W98, the number of "support" calls I have received is so far zero - used to average several per week. Brian
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