On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 15:56:34 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > In general I'll have to take the unpopular position and say I > disagree. All those potential converts are just like you - They don't > run desktops they run apps - and because they are so entrenched with > dollars already spent on Microsoft Windows, Microsoft email, Microsoft > Office, Quicken,, etc., they won't come just because they can save > $400 buying a new PC. > > To become a Linux user is a commitment. People don't make new > commitments lightly, and making a light commitment to Linux is doomed > to failure. It's far too hard to use. Imagine knowing absolutely > nothing about any Linux editor, nor even terminal commands, and trying > to configure networking. It's nigh on impossible.
You're confusing using with administering. Yes, administering a Linux system takes more knowledge than clicking a few buttons in Windows, but using a correctly setup system is no harder with Linux, even Gentoo, than Windows. My partner is about as computer-illiterate as they come, but she uses a Gentoo system. She runs apps, not a desktop and not an operating system. She uses KDE, not because she prefers it, but because it's what I use, so it was the easiest one for me to show her around. But as long as her mailer, browser and office programs work, she doesn't care what's underneath. This is someone so technophobic that she cannot use a VCR, but Linux is not hard to use for her. -- Neil Bothwick Forgive your enemies. But hit them a few times first.
pgpokp3oFphMr.pgp
Description: PGP signature
