On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:33, Arthur Moore wrote: > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39117575,00.htm > > Looks like I'm going back to Debian on my desktop. > > art
What is this guy thinking? It's O.K. for him to think that Linux is a few years off for the average home user, (after all he's an exec. What does he know?), but he doesn't have to go announcing Windows as the alternative. Especially not as an exec at Red Hat. I consider what he did bad business sense, if not immoral :) I'm going to have to disagree with him somewhat also. I must say that my wife (not a computer person) has very little problem using Linux for all her computing needs. The only time she does have a problem is when I spent the previous evening upgrading or tweaking and some how left evolution or Gaim not installed (oops). As for Matthew Szulik's 90 year old father, I think he wouldn't have any trouble whatsoever doing the things he would want to do with Linux. (Email, web) There aren't just two distinct groups of users: corporate and home. I would dare say there is a large section of home-users that would have no problems using a Linux desktop. As for those not in that group. . . I, for one, won't suggest what other operating system you can use. Greg ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
