RE: [SLE] Why does it always have to be a massive ordeal?
Ehmmm I don't believe he did installing Linux is harder than in windows. He said *after* installing Linux, adding other software is a massive pain in the rear and he game Mplayer as an example. Don't flame the guy, cos he's right. People don't want to use a command-line these days. They *do* want to click and Go!! Windoze aint all bad. Linux is still a geekoid's OS but we do have to take the origins of Linux into account here. Someone said the phone is harder to use than a computer? What phone are we talking about? What does the phone have? A numeric keypad and a screen. How hard can it be!?! What computer are we talking about? Etch-A-Sketch?!? -----Original Message----- From: alan@ibgames.com [mailto:alan@ibgames.com] Sent: 18 November 2002 10:21 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com; hangout@nylxs.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Why does it always have to be a massive ordeal? {Snip} The problem is, as Ruben pointed out obliquely, that most people do not install Windows, but if they want to use Linux then they do have to install it. This gives rise to the myth that Linux is more difficult to install. {snip} alan -- http://www.ibgames.net/alan Registered Linux user #6822 http://counter.li.org Winding Down - Weekly Tech Newsletter - subscribe at http://www.ibgames.net/alan/winding/mailing.html -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com ------------------------------------------ Confidentiality Notice & Disclaimer ------------------------------------ This e-mail is confidential and intended only for the addressee(s) shown. If you are not an intended recipient, please be advised that any use, dissemination, forwarding or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. Internet e-mails are not necessarily secure and Information Systems Associates Ltd does not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. Please note that incoming and outgoing electronic mail messages may be monitored. Should you receive this transmission in error, notify the sender immediately. All reasonable precautions have been taken to ensure no viruses are present in this E-mail. As Information Systems Associates Ltd cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage arising from the use of this E-mail or attachments we recommend that you subject these to your virus checking procedures prior to use.
Although I tend to avoid threads like this (I'm here to discuss SuSE Linux and help people out with it, not discuss the problems of Linux in general; Slashdot.org has that topic covered), I couldn't resist. On Monday 18 November 2002 11:30, Clifford Okoro wrote:
Ehmmm I don't believe he did installing Linux is harder than in windows. He said *after* installing Linux, adding other software is a massive pain in the rear and he game Mplayer as an example. Don't flame the guy, cos he's right. People don't want to use a command-line these days. They *do* want to click and Go!! Windoze aint all bad. Linux is still a geekoid's OS but we do have to take the origins of Linux into account here.
On most machines, -installing- Linux is easier than Windows. For example, WIndows did not have the drivers for my Ethernet card. I did not have any driver media with it (card came OEM). I couldn't download the drivers (obviously). So I.... created a FAT32 partition in Linux, downloaded the drivers into there, rebooted into Windows, and installed them. On the Linux side of things, that ethernet card uses the 'tulip.o' module, so that wasn't a problem. -- I think you're right Clifford Okoro... Once you have both a Windows/Linux system running, the Linux system _is_ more difficult to update/use. For most software packages, using the command line is a must, unless you can find an binary (hopefully an RPM) for it. In Windows, installation is _always_ a few double-clicks away via an EXE. Needless to say, Linux is moving in the right direction. YaST2 Online Update is great, and apt4rpm is even better (I just sent a request for it to feedback@suse.com).
Someone said the phone is harder to use than a computer? What phone are we talking about? What does the phone have? A numeric keypad and a screen. How hard can it be!?! What computer are we talking about? Etch-A-Sketch?!?
Absolutely. :) A computer is way more difficult to use than a
telephone, even rotary.
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