On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 15:23 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Tim wrote: > > The majority will understand "Linux" as being an OS, the whole > thing, > > one of the many OS distros that are similar to each other (*), but > not > > understand it as referring to just the kernel. > > And then you'll hear arguments like "You think Windows is bloated? > Linux is > *much* worse! Look, Debian is twenty-one CDs! Thirteen gigabytes! My, > what a > horribly bloated OS!". They think "the whole thing" is the OS, and so > they > compare "the Windows OS" to "the Linux OS", not understanding that > Debian is > a huge collection of programs more comparable to Windows plus Office > plus > Visual Studio plus MS SQL Server plus Photoshop plus lots and lots of > other > third-party programs, and that nobody will ever install all those 13 > GB of > Debian packages. So you explain it. You think you aren't going to have to explain it anyway? poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
