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On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 15:56:34 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> In general I'll have to take the unpopular position and say I |
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> disagree. All those potential converts are just like you - They don't |
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> run desktops they run apps - and because they are so entrenched with |
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> dollars already spent on Microsoft Windows, Microsoft email, Microsoft |
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> Office, Quicken,, etc., they won't come just because they can save |
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> $400 buying a new PC. |
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> To become a Linux user is a commitment. People don't make new |
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> commitments lightly, and making a light commitment to Linux is doomed |
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> to failure. It's far too hard to use. Imagine knowing absolutely |
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> nothing about any Linux editor, nor even terminal commands, and trying |
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> to configure networking. It's nigh on impossible. |
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You're confusing using with administering. Yes, administering a Linux |
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system takes more knowledge than clicking a few buttons in Windows, but |
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using a correctly setup system is no harder with Linux, even Gentoo, than |
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Windows. My partner is about as computer-illiterate as they come, but she |
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uses a Gentoo system. She runs apps, not a desktop and not an operating |
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system. She uses KDE, not because she prefers it, but because it's what I |
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use, so it was the easiest one for me to show her around. But as long as |
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her mailer, browser and office programs work, she doesn't care what's |
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underneath. This is someone so technophobic that she cannot use a VCR, |
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but Linux is not hard to use for her. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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