Brian Parish wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 07:44, FemmeFatale wrote:
> > > 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 OK Brian wins. He got my point across better than I did. I bow humbly to his usage of english. Ty Brian. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts." - Source: Dilbert
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