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| DATE | 2008-03-27 |
| FROM | ronny abraham
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Re: Linux ready for the home desktop?
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I haven't used Suse, but I have installed Ubuntu on my macbook pro.
Ubuntu is very close, but it still has further to go in terms of
usability.
Yes, I know we all regard linux as the "One True OS". But the reason
why people prefer Mac/Windows is because it is designed to be used by
an idiot. That is, by someone who has absolutely zero interest
whatsoever in learning how to configure his system. In fact, this is
the real reason why people are so frustrated with Vista. Putting
aside the numerous security problems, etc, that Vista has; people
don't give a damn about WHY the thing isn't working, they just want
it to run.
This same element ("get it to run"), is also why they don't feel like
relearning a new set of commands to do something, even if the new
commands are more efficient, even if the new software is better,
faster, whatever. Irrelevant. The software isn't their life, it's
peripheral to their life.
-ron
On Mar 27, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Mark Simko wrote:
> That is one reason why Linux is more ready than Windoze.
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:55 -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 06:31:55AM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>>> I introduced my parents to Linux [Ubuntu Gutsy] at their place,
>>> and they
>>> tried it for a few days. It was still too new for them, so they
>>> opted
>>> back for Windows.
>>>
>>> I was considering re-introducing it to them at some other point,
>>> until a
>>> few days later, my Linux box (Ubuntu) presented me with a
>>> reminder why
>>> Windows and Mac are still desktop-ready, but Linux isn't - the
>>> obligatory
>>> filesystem check if the machine has been rebooted at least 30 times.
>>>
>>> This leads me to the question of can this check be turned off? I
>>> know it
>>> is a kernel function, and not distro-based. If it can be turned
>>> off, what
>>> are the consequences?
>>>
>>> How do the [net/free/open]BSD families handle checks, since their
>>> kernels
>>> are different, I think.
>>>
>>> Thanks for feedback.
>>>
>>
>>
>> If GNU/Linux is not ready for the desktop, what else can a person
>> use?
>> Seems to me nothing else is better, or even usable.
>>
>> Ruben
>>
>>
>>> Scott
>>>
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