-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Juan Alberto Cirez wrote: > Shawn, > > "...Basing an opinion that "linux sucks" on a single distribution (as > seems to be implied in this paragraph) seems rather wrong to me, and > somewhat narrow minded. Instead that opinion should be "Distro X sucks > and blows in my experience..." > > LINUX = The KERNEL > The GNU contribution is the basis for the Free Software Foundation's > preferred name GNU/Linux. > Semantics, which most people do not care about, no matter how accurate you are.
> Again, > The point I was trying to make was that as a DESKTOP alternative, > GNU/Linux (ANY GNU/Linux distro), Blows...and Sucks. For someone like > myself, GNU/Linux shortcomings as a Desktop replacement are a non-issue > (as I have been using GNU/Linux since 1995); but to the "average" user > (like my 5 year-old daughter, my mother-in-law & my wife) using > GNU/LINUX (ubuntu, fedora, SuSe, etc.) is a gigantic pain in the a$$. > I have had the opposite experience with children. Generally they do not have previous experience getting in the way. It seems they are able to adapt more quickly than most adults. Besides most adults do not know how to use their computers, I would not expect them to be able to teach their children to do better. Either way we need to learn how to use these systems. If you want fun, move your menu bar to the top. That confuses a large number of Windows users (we did this April Fools one year, about 60% of the company called the help desk in one hour). For even more fun, move it to the top and select auto hide. Again familiarity vs ease of use. > I Love GNU/Linux; but I am pragmatic enough to realize its shortcomings. > I like to see the world for what it is, rather than for what I want it > to be. > No, we all see what we want. We can try to minimize this effect, but as humans we can never escape it. You still have a perspective coloured and altered by your expectations and experience. GNU/Linux as a Desktop has been more than viable for a very long time IMO. It seems that we have a different opinion based on our experiences. I see nothing in your post that changes my mind. To be honest, all I see is a repeat of the FUD that I have seen/heard for more than a decade. As Dafydd said, it is better to refer to specifics than vague statements that are meaningless when you actually look at them. None of your IDC quotes actually mean anything. This is not even looking at their bias, this is just looking at the statements themselves, they don't actually tell us anything. They are doom and gloom sounding sound bites, but there is nothing of actual substance or meaning there, at least from what you have posted (and what I have looked at in the past). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpWapsACgkQwRXgH3rKGfNVagCfUP1kzFmqPINnHAQWbsLFcn1v f/QAoKIyZHRWBjfDa3qlSAqDJI3zxqW1 =NfdT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
