On Friday 24 May 2002 17:23, Anders Johansson wrote:
It feels a little strange defending SuSE against an @suse.com, but here goes (big snip) The last is OEM preinstalls. That is the real key.
//Anders
It does seem odd that one would be defending SuSE from one of it's own employees? What is that all about? I tend to agree with Anders also in his last sentence, that OEM preinstalls of Linux will knock down the last barrier to people accepting it for desktop use. Most people would never have a clue about the OS, simply because that was what was on it when they purchased it. Linux is no more difficult to use than anything else, if the user only uses it for 90% of the things people purchase a PC for in the home. I look at it as a newbie still, coming up on 1 year of desktop usage, and find that if I install it, get logged in on the internet, it almost becomes boring to use because there are so few things needed or reliability problems. But that is not why most of us here use it either! We want to tweak, experiment and continually update things, which in turn allows Linux to be a dream come true. It allows us endless hours of tinkering, but for most casual users, they don't need that. I can attest to that just recently as I converted my wife's dad over to Linux. I put together a new computer for him and offered an even swap if he would agree to use Linux for a couple of weeks, just to prove to him his computer problems would go away! Doesn't look like I will have to wait those two weeks, as he is so pleased with his SuSE setup already. Oh, Peter Banks, he is near 80! The complexities of Linux are available to those of us that want to see them, but hidden to those that don't. The selection of programs is a plus as I have found and anyone converting to it have found as well. That is choice for the user and I can't say I have seen anyone having to use many programs to do one thing. Unlike Anders, I do play around with graphics programs and Gimp is one of the best available. I also use others with Linux too, because they are there and useful making graphics things easier. As far as IE being useful for anything, that makes me laugh! :-D I just today had to correct a customer's machine because her company tried to use their software with IE and because of the constant patches needed, kept breaking their software. I find myself laughing outloud now when someone mentions IE and security in the same sentence. :-D See, it happened again! ;o) Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Magic Page Products -- Amiga-SuSE-PC Sales & Service URL: http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb