Re: Where is Debian going?
<quote who="Kristian A.Rink">
> dialog is. Thus, perhaps it would be good not to too much import the
> "everyone needs to be able to install it" - concept out of the MS
> Windows world but to rather stick to an idea of "you'll get a system that
I don't know about you, but most of the "users" I have met
wouldn't be able to install any operating system if it involved
more then a couple clicks. not even MS Win comes with every
driver for every device. I've never seen a "user" who was comfertable
installing a driver.
infact i bet most of the users out there have never installed an
OS, they get it preinstalled with their system and they take
it to the local dealership when something breaks. or maybe if
the vendor gives a recovery CD they can restore it to factory
settings. I gave my mom my 486 with win95 back in '95, and
in 2000 it still had win95 on it. eventually the hd died and
i gave it to a friend.
as long as we have a x86 platform with such diverse hardware,
I don't believe any OS will be easy enough to install for the
average user. It would be too much work for anyone to assemble
drivers for everything and test everything to put it into any
OS.
especially these days with people buying $300 computers with
cheap barely supported hardware.
same goes for me with cars, if i run into trouble with my
car i call someone to help. i'm scared to screw something
up so if its more then getting gas or(more recently) putting
air in the tires, i go to a mechanic. if i have to, I call
a tow truck. I'm not ashamed of it, thats what those people
are there for, just like I am here for network and systems
issues. If they can't make a car where a technical person
like me feels comfertable messing with it(I even had a
semester of "shop" in college a few years ago), and they've
been making cars for what, 100 years? wonder how long, if
ever they will have a user friendly computer from the
ground up.
Not even the mac qualifies, i have a few friends
who make a living on mac consulting, mac people call them
when they have problems. sometimes its as simple as running
the "norton disk doctor" program, but the user doesn't
realize, or in more cases, doesn't want to have to deal with
it, so they pay the money and get somene who will.
nate
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