Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2255 mails)

[Frans de Boer <frans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 17:11 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
> Frans de Boer wrote:
>  to the wrong mailing lists.
> > BTW: no single Linux distro is really ready for the average consumer who
> > is used to use Windows only. 
>
> I disagree.

So both of us have different experiences.

> I have personally seen many people who have moved to Linux with nothing but
> windows experience and become immediately productive without the need of any
> hand holding beyond the first hour.
>
> DELL (and others) are selling Linux on various machines these days.
> The integration of linux on my wife's last Dell was phenomenally well
> done. Everything worked out of the box.
>
> Most of the people I have seen switch end up with new machines
> and some flavor of Ubuntu because thats what's commercially
> available.

I was NOT talking about normal productivity, but rather the lack of
support for Peripheral devices like USB devices and the like. For
example: I have yet to find a proper tool who can really support my
Windows Mobile 3 PDA device like ActiveSync can. By stating this we
enter the discussion about proprietary protocols MS is using, one of the
reasons the EC-Commission is pursuing MS.

Frans de Boer.

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