> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Subject: A good charge against free operating systems > > I think you always have to distinguish between the _administrator_ and > the _user_ of a system. Of course here at my personal desktop-system I > am both admin and user but this is not the way it has to be. > I friend of mine knows nothing about computers and he decided to get > one for his studies. I installed Debian an his system, configured it, > provided it with a nice gnome-desktop and showed him how to open > netscape, play mp3s and write documents with StarOffice. He is happy > with it because it works. > It's not the users job to install and maintain a system, he wants to > use it. There are better people around to install and configure. Just > because M$ told the people that computers are easy and everybody can > install Windows and use it doesn't mean GNU/Linux has to support this > wrong assumption.
Great. But what happens if something is messed up with the system? Is is desireable that those "end users" need to call a friend or a service guy to fix a problem? I still think if you own a computer you should be able to handle it's basic problems and diseases. jens
