On Sunday 27 April 2003 12:08, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
I also find it amazing that for the longest time people said " if it doesn't hold your hand and do A, B and C then it won't displace Windows.." and now that it hold's your hand..even to the point of holding it down as MacOSX and WinXP do...now people are bitching. I just don't think that anyone can be satisfied.
*shrug* I don't say this to start a flamewar and anyone who gets to out of line with replies will get procmailed to /dev/null... 'nuff said.
As one who accidentally started a war over this a few months ago, good luck. Actually, I *DO* believe that until Linux has the capability to hold people's hands, it's not going to be adopted by the average person using Windows - many of whom want to turn on the computer, read their email, maybe print a greeting card or two without knowing more about the computer than they do about the workings of their toaster. OTOH, the nature of Linux is that there are going to be users who don't want *ANY* handholding - and they are the current core Linux users. Ideally, we need to accomodate both. Installation options to choose the type of user would be useful. I do disagree that the default should be to turn off the handholding, however. The type of user that is knowledgeable enough not to need this handholding can easily choose to turn it off. The normal person migrating from Windows may not be comfortable changing options.