Re: UNIX and ease of use
Urmm, first, a minor correction. Debian is VERY easy to use. It is
perhaps more difficult to LEARN than Win95. A small but very
important distinction.
David Welton <davidw@gate.cks.com> writes:
> If ease of use is an important concern, than instead of arguing over
> one name, we ought to do something to :
>
> 1. Make ppp easy to set up. From irc and newsgroup experience, this
> is the biggest hurdle.
Hmm, one problem is that no other distro uses pon. Not that pon is
bad. I have never used it since I use diald.
I agree things like PAP/CHAP need help.
> 2. Provide the option of a nice, easy to configure window manager, or
> barring that, some sort of wm configuration package that provides a
> nice default.
I think that fvwm2 + the menu stuff fulfills this now.
> 3. Hammer on the installation disks, so they work *everywhere*. It's
> really frustrating when someone is forced to go with another
> distribution because our boot disks don't work.
This I've never seen, except on laptops.
John
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