On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 16:34, Steve Withers wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 18:05, Justin L Croonenberghs wrote: > > 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? > > > > :-) > > If she wants Internet browsing and e-mail, there would be no need for > her to do that. > > Would you tell yer Grandma all she needs to do is run 'regedit' and make > some changes to her registry keys? > > Or how do you explain she needs to patch new XP system to keep the worm > viruses away....but she can't connect to the Internet to download the > patch becasue she will be infected? > > This is just two situations that are more of a pain than most things I > do on Linux. > > There are many more. I agree. I have been a RH user for some time now. My wife, who would probably be considered to have average PC knowledge has always been a M$ user. After getting tired of rebuilding her W2K laptop for who knows how many times for many various reasons I instead rebuilt her laptop to RH. I checked with her to see what apps she needed (browser, email, doc editor, spreadsheet) and thought this would be a good thing to do. Hell, if she didn't like it I could always bring her back to M$. It has been several months now that she has been running RH and I have not had to touch the machine to address any issues since I handed it over to her...and she uses it on a daily basis. She has no reason to know anything about opening a terminal for what she needs to do. I am not saying that this is an ideal situation for the masses, but I also don't think Linux should be looked at as something you need to be a computer geek to understand. Luckily in our situation if my wife had an issue with it she has a computer geek who can take care of it ;-) -- Vince Scimeca - Senior Technology Manager Jupitermedia Corp. vscimeca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
