For the last time: TO THE AVERAGE USER WINDOWS IS EASIER TO USE. GNU/Linux on the server space is the $**t; but as a Desktop it blows...and sucks
The average user does not know, or care to know how to compile programs from source; or know what in hell's name a device driver is. An average user is someone that unlike most of the reader of this list, does not have a computer (or software development) background so please stop interpreting my comments based on your own level of computer proficiency. I mistakenly assumed that your experience with GNU/Linux would have given you an insight into the challenges people without such experience encounter. Again, I was wrong. For the past three years or so we have been trying to introduce GNU/Linux to the local government, schools districts and small to mid-sized business. So far that endeavor has been less than a spectacular success simply because the learning curve is to steep. This has been the case in every age group, category and proficiency level. This of course is not hard to see: Microsoft has spent billions on R&D, so naturally its final product would have addressed (or at least attempted to address) in some ways the inherent difficulties in HMI and well as hardware integration. I think we (the GNU/Linux) community have spent so much time and effort hating Microsoft that we fail to recognize (and worse, emulate) some of their successful approaches. The fact that no one has even raised the possibilities these same issues exists in GNU/Linux is simply astounding when the proof is so glaringly apparent: Take a trip to your local Office Depot and grab some peripherals at random (printer, network cards, etc.) see how many of these devices will work right out of the box in both Windows and GNU/Linux; then see how easy and/or intuitive would be to "get everything to work" in both OS. The fact that no one recognizes this tells me of the disconnect between the open source developing community and the average user. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Juan Alberto Cirez CFAA/CFAT, AFSA/CFAT-CFET,CIPS/ISP, ASTTBC/CFET, CHI(e) Sr. Field Service Technician/Project Manager J. A. Cirez Integrated Technologies, Inc Fire Protection | IT Services | Security | Home Inspections | Consulting Tel. : (780)972-4739 Fax : (780)747-6078 Email: [email protected] Web : http://www.jacintech.com =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= _______________________________________________ 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
