On Sunday 13 June 2004 07:57, John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 12 June 2004 16:00, Damon Jebb wrote:
Well, given what you know about XP you could have planned for it and downloaded the patches before connecting it to the internet - I would have, and installed an antivirus product and a firewall. Did you bother to activate the (admittedly limited) inbuilt firewall?
Damon
Yes, yes, I'm sure Pieter is well aware of his blunder, but you miss his point entirely. How is Ma and Pa Polyester spozed to know that AFTER buying the new computer and the cable modem that its UNSAFE to use them untill they go out and drop another $30-$70 bucks on a router?
I guess it was the victory of hope over experience. I hadn't expected Dell to deliver a computer where the service packs weren't installed yet. It will not happen again. :) John does make my point though: how's the average user going to know things like this? Assuming you buy a fully installed Linux machine from a vendor, I wonder if the user experience will be worse than the one with Windows XP. I wouldn't trust my dad to install Windows XP either... The idea is this: if you have a fully installed machine (installed by an experienced person that is), would the user experience for Windows XP be so much better than that of SuSE 9.1? My dad doesn't know where to get divx anymore than he knows where to find Packman, so setting that aside, and starting from a properly installed machine: which user experience would be better, and by how much? Regards, Pieter Hulshoff