Part of the problem is lack of applications (in comparison to M$) Part is culture.
Linux is tied into the unix way of thinking (I come from a dos/windows windows world) and the tools and metaliity are just diffrent.
Interestingly one of my complaints about packages such as Netscape, Star Office, Kmail, etc is that they are very much tied to the "Windows" way of handling multiple users. i.e. end users are expected to enter all sorts of details, POP3 usernames/passwords, etc. Rather than the approach used with traditional unix applications (even old Netware email apps) where information is infered by the username/UID. The concepts of "Your email is in /var/spool/mail/<user>, ~/Mailbox, ~/Maildir/ or even \\server\<user>\Maildir\, SYS:MAIL\<bind-id>, etc"; "Your details are in /etc/passwd, passwd.byname, bindary, NDS tree, etc keyed to your username/UID"; "Your bookmarks/history/cookies live in your user directory" So valuable for having workstations easily usable by any user appear to have passed many current programmers by. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/