On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I've ever heard a 'warning of the immenent fragmentation'
> besides in FUD statements,
Yes, but that's what I'm trying to fight! :) Even amongst our own people!
> > software has become very easy with RPM or .deb files, and there are an
> > assortment of choices of tools to make it even easier.
>
> In your an my eyes, yes, but not to the non technical end user. They're used
> to running an exe, and hitting next untill they see a 'Finish' button. Of
> course, they occasionally cry when it breaks something really, REALLY bad, but
> the market tolerates that. The fact that it can happen fairly easily, and yet
> users put up with it, is proof of that fact.. Again, point and click..
Sure, but we have that with GnoRPM and KDE's version, whatever that is...
The interface is a little different, but it takes only a few minutes to
learn it. What you are really describing is mankind's apparent refusal to
learn anything that's new and different. :)
> User don't like to read docs. I've never known someone to actually read the
> Win95/98 manual, and they wouldn;t expect to do it under Linux, either..
I guess that's why I'm a techie... cuz I did. Once, long ago... See
above.
> > No problem. At least I can't see one... :)
>
> HeHe.. That's usually what I'd say, while they are staring blankly at me,
> not understanding a *word* of what I'm saying.. ;-P
:)
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" "Who watches the watchmen?"
-Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
Arris Interactive | A Nortel Company
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