Re: Why are .thunderbird and .evolution hidden ?

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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 19:49 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:27 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
>> >> <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Like many good ideas, I'd say that this one has very little chance of
>> >> > becoming standard practice, given that each Linux app decides for itself
>> >> > where to put its config files
>> >>
>> >> As I told Ed, there is more than config files in .evolution and
>> >> .thunderbird: there is data!
>> > ----
>> > imagine that...
>> >
>> > and there is data in ~/.kde, ~/.mozilla and many other '.' directories.
>> > That is a long held tradition and certainly not relegated to the 2
>> > applications you are referring to.
>>
>> Possible. Those are the ones that are causing me problems.
>>
>> > the Mac user with eyes closed should be using a Mac.
>>
>> This is the kind of reasoning that brings Mac's market share to around
>> 5% worldwide, close to 10% in the US, whereas Linux, also with a *NIX
>> based OS, has been hovering around 1% worldwide FOR YEARS.
>>
>> So, when you call TV stations to inquire why they don't support Linux,
>> they answer: "We support Windows because 94% of our users use it. Hey,
>> we even support Mas with 5%. But Linux, with 1%... Are you really
>> serious? Should we lose your time on irrelevant matters?"
>>
>> In the end, you'll end up browsing the web with the equivalent of Lynx.
>>
>> Your opinion I've heard a thousand of times.  It's really no use to
>> repeat it. It's a loser's definition that claims that making things
>> voluntarily harder for newbies is the way to go. Linux, as we know,
>> can't go wrong.
>>
>> Thanks for your contribution, Craig! You make lots of sense.
> ----
> again the myopic vision...
>
> Market penetration:
>
> - cannot be adequately established for Linux because so few computers
> are actually sold with Linux on them.

Why is that? In which way would making back-up easier -- and this is
only one problem -- make Linux less popular?

> The one thing you can somewhat
> measure is web browser usage where the statistics aren't as clear cut as
> you want to believe. See...
>
> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

w3schools.com... Yes, this generally gives you an overall picture.

Once again, thanks for your contribution!


> - the mission for Linux is to provide the best possible software and not
> to get market saturation.

Saturation? At 1%.... for years?

> - the issue with TV stations isn't really about Linux or Macs or Windows
> at all, it is that they are using proprietary technologies which inflate
> their audience's costs because of the licensing fees collected by the
> companies that make those technologies. That they are blind

Yup, they are blind. You go teach them.
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