Let me put it too you this way, easiest desktop to use does not win you the desktop war, otherwise Apple would have won many times over by now. Yes, people have come to expect a certain amount of ease of use, but I think, at least with Mandrake, I haven't seriously used a new version of Fedora or any other distro, but I think a linux desktop is just as easy to use and at least as reliable. There are still some weird oddities, but people put up with all kinds of weird oddities with windoze. Think of they days when it was the Mac versus DOS. MS won with marketing and going with the more open platform. Linux has the openness down, it just needs the big OEM's behind it. That is all that is left and the war is won.
Bryan On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 15:27, Bryan Murdock wrote: > None of what has been suggested so far are going to make my sister or > dad use Redhat instead of Windoze. They don't care if KDE is broken by > Redhat. They don't care about getting exotic devices that they bought > used on ebay to work. They want to go to Costco and buy a computer that > works. It's possible they will want to plug in their printer and a > digital camera and have that work (and that does work with Mandrake > right now, if not Redhat). They want to use office, browse the web, > read email, and print pictures that they took with their camera. > > If Redhat wants to beat MS on the desktop, they will partner with Dell > and HP and get computers on the shelf at Costco, Best Buy, and Circuit > City. > > Bryan > > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 15:18, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 16:04, Jacob Albretsen wrote: > > > Can't resist... must fight temptation.... > > > > > > On Friday 26 March 2004 15:22, Galen wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I just landed a summer internship at Red Hat and am really interested to > > > > hear from a users perspective what doesn't work. > > > > > > Tell them that Gnome and KDE are two different GUIs and stop making them look > > > the same. Also stop breaking KDE and making it unusable by snubbing its > > > native applications in favor of the ones they think you should be using > > > instead of giving YOU all the choices available and letting YOU decide what > > > is best for YOU. > > > > I've got a better idea: Drop KDE altogether, that way the KDE project > > can package their own RPMs and leave Red Hat alone. KDE can fend for > > itself on distros that use it by default. > > > > Seriously, I'm _not_ just flaming, it's a lot of wasted effort to > > support KDE at all when it just makes KDE-lovers mad anyway and everyone > > else will just use GNOME because that's what comes up by default. And > > again, seriously, those who like it will package it for themselves and > > there will be a yum repository in no time (there probably already is). > > > > Disclaimer: If there are grammatical or spelling errors in this post > > please make aware the read engrish.com have happy times conceded. > > > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
