On Thursday 09 November 2006 20:44, Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote: > > Let's be realistic here, Linux for the masses (of mums) is just a plain > silly concept at the moment. We have a secretary who thinks she has a > black box and a telly in-lieu of a PC so, yeah right!, I will put Linux > on her box and let her drive it.... > On the contrary. For those people there is no problem at all with linux. You simply install for them a browser, mail client, office suite and maybe a few simple games, and it stays like that forever. They won't ever do an update - they wouldn't have done in windows, either - so the problems never arise. I speak from experience. That's how my husband's FC4 box is set up and he sees no reason to upgrade at all! Anne
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