Re: How is typical home computer used today?
On Monday 08 December 2014 20:46:56 Richard Owlett wrote:
> Bret Busby wrote:
> > On 09/12/2014, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> >> In a thread titled "Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?"
> >> berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:
> >> [https://lists.debian.org/3d6a00a1c8bddc88b517b4e19cc681dd@neutralite.or
> >>g]>
> >>
> >>> Le 08.12.2014 14:18, Marty a écrit :
> >>>> [SNIP]
> >>>> Multi-seat PC and other
> >>>> anachronisms probably have to go away.
> >>
> >> Exactly what is meant by "Multi-seat PC"?
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> >> I'm working on defining a heavily customized personal
> >> installation of Debian. One of the *STRONG* underlying
> >> assumptions is the the machine would only ever be used by a
> >> specific individual. One of the underlying motivations is
> >> personally understanding the the guts of Linux.
> >>
> >>> [snip]
> >>>
> >>> About anachronism... you should read about what is the minitel*,
> >>> and then, consider thinking about how most people uses their
> >>> computers ;)
> >>>
> >>> *: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
> >>
> >> Is there any current survey of people actually use computers today?
> >> My personal usage would be email, web browsing, and some number
> >> crunching. I would explicitly avoid installing anything that
> >> would act as a server when connected to a network.
> >
> > I believe that an appropriate response to the question of the subject
> > field, is, to reword the quote from Plato's Phaedrus, to
> > "And, what is typical, and, what is not typical?"
>
> *NO* !
> I was asking a question which has a statistical answer.
Nonsense!
Is this supposed to be a statistical survey to give a statistical answer?
(See above.) If so, how have you randomised it? The Debian list strikes me
as a very specialist non-random group. We can't possibly give you a
statistically useful answer.
Bret's Plato quotation is very apt. What do you mean by typical and normal??
And how do you expect to get the answer from so non-random a group?
Lisi
>
> Whether the OS be Windows, Linux, OSX, RSX11-M is irrelevant.
> How are home computers used?
> NOT what is the OS.
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