On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Parshwa Murdia <b330bkn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:29 PM, g <geleem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> as for friends and *their* families, complaints do occur mainly with >> children because they can not play their games, get emails and use >> twitter and facebook. > > > correct. I can certainly see "playing games" as an obstacle, but only if it's specific Windows games you have in mind. For example, you'll be able to get World of Warcraft running under WINE (with some effort), but you're unlikely to ever play something like EverQuest II. I don't see reading email, and using Facebook and Twitter as obstacles. There are dozens of mail clients for Linux, both command line and graphical. Not only that, but Evolution is able to connect to and participate in a Microsoft Exchange environment. As for Facebook and Twitter, Fedora integrates with both Twitter and Facebook out of the box without installing any additional software (Pino and Firefox for Twitter, Firefox for Facebook). In all honesty, for normal desktop use, the only "hoop" Parshwa should need to jump through is to setup RPM Fusion on the system[1]. Then, when his wife or kids visit some media serving website, or try to listen to their iTunes music in Rhythmbox, the system will prompt them to click 'OK" a bunch of times to automatically install the correct codec support. The use cases where Linux in general (and Fedora specifically) is not appropriate for a home desktop are few and generally hinge on only 1 or 2 applications. Please don't cast doubt on the capabilities of the software where those doubts are unfounded. [1] http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration -- Chris -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
