At 11:10 PM 5/22/2006 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 13:52 +0200, jdd sur free wrote:
I use to say that when you buy your windows computer it works very nicely ... cut ... With Linux, the problem is different. nowaday the basic install works and you get a running machine ... cut ...
Yes. The problem is that most Windows users think Linux is a Windows application, and installs on a Windows system like such. Then *WE* cater to that attitude. That's where the problem is.
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 13:52 +0200, jdd sur free wrote:
And new Linux pre-configured machines works out of the box (don't forget _all_ windows machines come pre-configured)
Which is why we have to make sure point #1 is to get these users to realize that they _never_ installed Windows. They got it pre-installed.
/snip/ Well, I don't know about that. I ran DOS, way back when, and I installed Windows 3.x and so on. And reinstalled it, etc. But we weren't all born yesterday. And I have to tell you all, that because of a Mail screw-up on the Linux machine, I am running a very reliable XP system here. I might be running Linux on this machine too, but it doesn't like to do email. I'm not going to try and fix it. It's Linux's fault, not mine. I suppose I will reinstall 10.0 on the Linux machine, and hope that the mail problem there does not recur. From what I see on the list, 10.1 has more problems than fixes. I am tempted to go back to 8.1 on this machine, which I think could access email, IIRC. (Both machines off the same router, a Linksys.) If I weren't dedicated to making Linux work for me, I wouldn't be on this list. But, gee, it's hard. . . . --doug -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.7.0/345 - Release Date: 5/22/2006