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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org