On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 07:04, Vince Scimeca wrote: > 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 ;-) My mom and three of my five kids use Linux on their desktops. It does what they want, and I don't have to rebuild all the time like I did/do with Windows. There is definitely a place in the market for a home build based on Fedora.
