Em Sex, 2003-12-05 às 16:45, Jack Bowling escreveu: > > This harkens back to the ease of use issue. Or as we like to say, the Grandma issue. > > I just had to work with a Windows 2000 laptop. I went to a website that > > required Flash, and guess what happened? It automatically downloaded and > > installed the flash player and continued on playing. Easy enough for Grandma. > > Knock Windows as much as you want, it is much easier to install software > > for the common user. This is the drawback to Linux at this time. It is > > definitely not ready for the common user, ie Grandma. Grandma is going to > > find it hard to install java. Hey Grandma, just download the rpm and install, > > then go into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and create a link to the plugin. > [snip] > I use linux so I do not have "ease of use" programs installing things > without my input. This is something I wish to never see on any of my > boxes. An preety old version of netscape had the ability to, at least, drive you to the right download place for that plugin. Mozilla does not do this.
