Re: Installation
Am Sonntag, 9. September 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
> On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:23:52 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 9. September 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
> (...)
>
> >> > Well that just works.
> >>
> >> (...)
> >>
> >> And you know why that works? Because "you" wanted it worked, not
> >> your father. Now imagine your father has to do all the job by his
> >> own, do you still think he is going to maintain his current setup?
> >> I really doubt it.
>
> (...)
>
> > Well may father came with an outdated Ubuntu box he bought in some
> > discounter and asked me to install it ;).
>
> Now ask yourself what would had happened in the event "you" were not a
> variable to consider :-)
>
> > So it wasn´t exactly my wish to have this working.
>
> (...)
>
> What I wanted to say is that maybe your father would have considered
> another option should "you" were not available to do the job of
> installing linux on his behalf.
>
> >> Back to home, your uncle sends a "beautiful" PowerPoint file by
> >> e-mail to your father and despite LibreOffice can open the file
> >> with no problem your father ears no sound. And here is where the
> >> real linux hist[eo]ry starts... at this point, unless your father
> >> either a) shows a real interest in solving the problem by himself
> >> or b) you or someone else is near to solve the problem, 99% of the
> >> time your fictional father will simply jump to Windows.
> >
> > So ignorance of real open standards, well standards that mean to be
> > interoperable from the beginning, harms the adoption of Linux?
> > Ignorance of a standard that has been formalized way before
> > Microsoft paid their standard through the comitee members. Ignorance
> > of a standard thats way easier to grasp cause its documentation is
> > to the point…
> >
> > What a pity.
>
> (...)
>
> Ignorance is a pity by its own definition, but regarding the Linux
> adoption, I think it's not the one to blame.
>
> Today there's Internet and users are (or "can be") informed by many
> different means. The problem with Linux adoption is that users do not
> want to be informed, they only want their computers work with the less
> headaches and this is not possible with Linux, which on the other hand,
> is where it relies its beauty: Linux forces you to think and to choose.
>
> So in brief, if you ask me if Linux is ready for the desktop I'd say
> that yes; it's people who is not ready for Linux.
I am not even sure about this.
There is quite some things where I now shake my head and think "this is so
easy with Linux now" compared with how it was say 5 or 10 years ago. I
plug in a second screen or beamer on the laptop and get a dialog and it
just works or I drag something into K3b and it just burns or I open some
file even from Windows in LibreOffice and it just displays and and and… heck,
even Nepomuk desktop search is working quite nicely these days. Only
KDEPIM 2 still seems to be a work in progress, but it seems to come along
nicely from what I read.
Linux on desktop has gone a long way. And I think it is still on a
journey.
I think its important to think on Windows, too. Do you know the video or
was it a series of images where someone starts up Internet Explorer goes
to some webpages and clicks yes everytime he is asked whether to install a
toolbar and such. Up to the extent of not being able to view a webpage in
it cause the space in the browser window has become to small?
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