> Please don't get me wrong. I run Linux every bit as much on most days > as I run Windows. I have run Wine for a few apps, hoping to give up > Windows completely, but it's not ready for prime time so I haven't > been able to do that. (Yet!)
What my point really was, was that for example my parents (my grandparents are all dead, or well on their way...) don't really know what a computer does, and they don't even care enough to learn. What that means is that they really couldn't buy a computer without OS installed, if I wasn't there to install it. When it is installed, they couldn't care less what OS it really is, as long as they have the nice looking button that opens the web-browser, the other button that opens e-mail client and the one that opens word processing software (actually they don't even know that those are the real names and not internet, mail and writing program). My mom has managed to get an anti-virus software installed by herself, following instructions from her ISPs website, but I doubt if it was easier than: emerge f-prot (not taking into account that linux doesn't really need a anti-virus software). I don't see how Windows could be any easier. And since I'm already acting as a helpdesk over the phone, on a linux box I could just log in to their computer using ssh and do the needed adjustments/updates (unless of course, the help request was about some feature in the 'writing program'). How easy would that be for me and for my parents? Well currently they are still using Windows, and I've totally stopped using it (except in my work as windows developer because I really don't have a choise). Still I keep thinking about installing linux on my parents machine also, since they are already using mozilla etc. -- Janne "So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." - Immanuel Kant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
