Am Sonntag, 9. September 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:23:52 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 9. September 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > (...) > > >> > Well that just works. > >> > >> (...) > >> > >> And you know why that works? Because "you" wanted it worked, not > >> your father. Now imagine your father has to do all the job by his > >> own, do you still think he is going to maintain his current setup? > >> I really doubt it. > > (...) > > > Well may father came with an outdated Ubuntu box he bought in some > > discounter and asked me to install it ;). > > Now ask yourself what would had happened in the event "you" were not a > variable to consider :-) > > > So it wasn´t exactly my wish to have this working. > > (...) > > What I wanted to say is that maybe your father would have considered > another option should "you" were not available to do the job of > installing linux on his behalf. > > >> Back to home, your uncle sends a "beautiful" PowerPoint file by > >> e-mail to your father and despite LibreOffice can open the file > >> with no problem your father ears no sound. And here is where the > >> real linux hist[eo]ry starts... at this point, unless your father > >> either a) shows a real interest in solving the problem by himself > >> or b) you or someone else is near to solve the problem, 99% of the > >> time your fictional father will simply jump to Windows. > > > > So ignorance of real open standards, well standards that mean to be > > interoperable from the beginning, harms the adoption of Linux? > > Ignorance of a standard that has been formalized way before > > Microsoft paid their standard through the comitee members. Ignorance > > of a standard thats way easier to grasp cause its documentation is > > to the point… > > > > What a pity. > > (...) > > Ignorance is a pity by its own definition, but regarding the Linux > adoption, I think it's not the one to blame. > > Today there's Internet and users are (or "can be") informed by many > different means. The problem with Linux adoption is that users do not > want to be informed, they only want their computers work with the less > headaches and this is not possible with Linux, which on the other hand, > is where it relies its beauty: Linux forces you to think and to choose. > > So in brief, if you ask me if Linux is ready for the desktop I'd say > that yes; it's people who is not ready for Linux.
I am not even sure about this. There is quite some things where I now shake my head and think "this is so easy with Linux now" compared with how it was say 5 or 10 years ago. I plug in a second screen or beamer on the laptop and get a dialog and it just works or I drag something into K3b and it just burns or I open some file even from Windows in LibreOffice and it just displays and and and… heck, even Nepomuk desktop search is working quite nicely these days. Only KDEPIM 2 still seems to be a work in progress, but it seems to come along nicely from what I read. Linux on desktop has gone a long way. And I think it is still on a journey. I think its important to think on Windows, too. Do you know the video or was it a series of images where someone starts up Internet Explorer goes to some webpages and clicks yes everytime he is asked whether to install a toolbar and such. Up to the extent of not being able to view a webpage in it cause the space in the browser window has become to small? -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209091804.00696.mar...@lichtvoll.de
