Re: Users ready for Debian on the Desktop
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 12:53:59AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * bob parker (bob_parker@dodo.com.au) [030417 11:58]:
> > Linux was ready for the desktop quite some time ago, especially
> > Debian. OK it's not that wonderful to install but how many Windows
> > users install their own system? Very few I'll bet.
>
> This is a very important but seldom realized point. I invite anyone
> who claims that "Linux is hard to install" to attempt a ground-up
> install of any version of windows.
Sorry, but if you honestly think Windows is more difficult to install
than most Linux distros, your missing something. I'm certianly
pro-Linux, and prefer it to any MS release, but the MS releases are a
fair bit more "hand holding".
> > If you look at the most common user needs; word processing, simple
> > spreadsheets with just row/column sums and maybe a little date
> > display and arithmetic. Add to those a web browser and email client
> > and you've covered 90% or more I'd bet.
>
> Precisely. Shockingly, they're all convinved that they need a 2+GHz
> Pentium 4 to run such a terminal.
With the extra MS software on them, in many cases they do.
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Jamin W. Collins
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