On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> > was not able to configure the display for 1024x768 though there was
> a driver
> > for that card..
>
> If the driver was there, then why didn't you use it?
> So much for ease of install, huh...
I think he was talking about windows not being able to use the driver
even though it was present. I've had the same problems. X runs at
1024x768, but windows can't handle it.
> I wonder what a newbie would think when he is presented with the
> screen where he is asked to partition his drive, he would just run
> away from it.
Let the installer do the partitioning for you. That is an option you
know? You can let it be done automatically.
> You miss the point again, does any Linux desktop system come anywhere
> close to winDOZE as far as usability goes?
Mine does. My desktop is far far far more usable than any other
desktop. Not just for me, but for the absolute newbie as well. It
looks good too.
> Linux had been trying to give usability since the days of FVWM2 (I
> guess), and that was long before Mr. Steve Jobs and company came along
> (in 2001) and stunned the world with Mac OS X, which incidentally is
> again Unix _based_
> What was the Linux community doing with all the lead time they had?
If the Mac OS X guys would be so kind as to release their source code
instead of simply taking open source tools and using them...
--
"Until you stalk and overrun, you can't devour anyone."
-- Hobbes
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