Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2004-06-12 at 11:32 -0700, Scott Leighton wrote:
I like Linux and am now a SuSE user of a little over 1 month. I have no intention of going back to windows, but the fact is that none of the Linux distros are ready for home desktop use by the typical non-technical user. It is far too complicated to get things running and configured correctly and the author of the article hit it right on in his points.
Ah, one month.
Er... For how long have you being using windows, a few years at least? Well, when you are as experienced using Linux as Windows, say, two years from now, we retake this point.
A point I've argued over the years with many highly respected authors. You should have seen the first articles from people like Timothy Butler and Nick Petreley in high profile printed magazines and newspapers reported in Linux forums, both have changed their views as I told them they would, Butler and his company have since become the staunchest advocates of Linux. Henson in the Sunday Times savagely flamed and insulted Linux, got savagely flamed back and insulted back by some, flamed the flamers as insulting spoilt Linux kids - pretty un-Sunday Times it was . His second pass was milder a year later as I told him it would be - his main complaint this time was that he couldn't use Linux for his music composition work, I pointed him to apps that would do just that. Third pass, milder yet a year after, but still not warm, nothing further from him for about three years.
You can not pretend to compare ease of use, either as user or as administrator between so different operating systems and programs and environments, etc, when your experience and knowledge of both is so dissimilar.
That perhaps explains why I've never found Windows user friendly and also why I've never understood Mac enough to get anything running under (admittedly) a Mac emulator, the GUI was a Mac, but I couldn't find the INTUITIVE button. Put me on a desert island with them both and nothing else but bread and water, shade and a wind generator to keep the batteries charged, I'd probably become accomplished as a user in the months spent there. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer ===== LINUX ONLY USED HERE =====