-- Justin L Croonenberghs Webmaster/Owner, Geek Stuff http://www.geekstuff.info/ Sometimes, I even update. "Never memorize what you can look up" - Albert Einstein Alexander Dalloz said: > Am Mi, den 05.11.2003 schrieb Justin L Croonenberghs um 06:05: >> Why not? He's being honest. Can you honestly imagine your grandma >> picking >> up a computer and then finding out she needs to edit her /etc/inittab? > > Despite I even can't imagine her picking up any computer that is a funny > image. My grandma is a wiz ad her computer now...it's scary! >> :-) >> >> Linux is still too much of a "geek" operating system. You're not >> thinking >> like a consumer; they want the thing to work, work now, work without >> their >> intervention, and they *simply don't care* how it functions. Much like >> cars, really. > No, for me linux is in no way more "geeky" than Windows[tm]. I agree, > for many users a computer just has to work. but those do not need more > than 5 keys or they are confused by possibilities. Well, since you are subscribed to the Fedora list, I'm assuming you know your way around computers...I've learned that people, as a whole, are very imtimidated by the world of computing, and so they immediately latch onto brands they know. Which is why I don't believe I'll live to see the end of Windows. (maybe I'll be proved wrong) >> And Windows XP really isn't bad; it's a good, modern OS (though >> architectually needs work), that's fast and reliable, and compared to >> the >> abomination that was Windows Me, it's a Godsend. Remember, your average >> consumer knows absolutely nothing of the computing world; that's how AOL >> made all its money. > I have enough experience with Windows[tm] to know that the "easy, > intuitive, reliable, ... computing with Windows XP[tm] is just marketing > schmock. And to what it leads you see with all these worms spreading > around and interfering even experienced users who know what they do (my > mail account is still flooded by this damn Swen virus coming from these > nice Windows[tm] machines). Well, worms are a problem. THe biggest problem in the Windows codebase as I understand it is that Windows 5 is a transitionary OS. Transitionary to ... something. We'll see. >> Cheers! > Good morning America :) 11:34 PM CDT over here...so not really :-)
