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Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian



Dan H. wrote:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:15:47PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
Remember everything you've noted when the Microsofties remind you that
Linux "is not ready for the desktop".

I must admit though that I was pretty annoyed when my wife wanted to use
sound on our home Debian box and it took me quite a bit of wading
through the system to realize that I had to manually add her to the
"audio" group. That's not desktop fitness, either.

For those starting out on linux, and using the default gnome desktop,
"System->Administration->Users and Groups" will let you add/modify/remove users and control the level of privileges of each.
So you can actually specify all the privileges when creating a user.

Even if you 'adduser' from the shell, then you have the option of specifying the additional groups on the command line.

In my experience, I find that people with no prior experience with computers have no difficulty coping up with linux at all. I recently installed ubuntu on my father-in-law's home pc, and he was pleasantly surprised at the lack of viruses, ease of copying photos from his camera (in windows, 'it complains of virus'), ease of burning a cd (in windows, he has to wade through nero), ease of watching movies (mplayer plays everything unlike in windows)

--
Raj Kiran Grandhi
--
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.


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