On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Edward Fleming wrote about, Re: Newbies..newbies:
> >
> > This and other problems are hard to solve, however maybe a few mails to
> > distributors like Redhat may make a difference.
>
>
> Parden me for throwing my two cents worth in here, but, when I first
> got LINUX I spent over 2 weeks trying to get it to set up. I had to go
> out and find a person that knew how to do LINUX and paid him to set up
> my X-windows. Through it all I never said, this is a crappy system and
> I am going back to M$. I was one that wanted out of the Make Bill rich
> camp and was not going to stop till I got a working system. I have
> bought at least 5 disros of LINUX, RedHat5.2, 6.1, SuSE 6.1, Caldera 1.3
> (two times) and Caldera 2.2 I also gave a donation to get a copy of
> Debian 2.2 All three of the ones RedHat6.1, SuSE 6.1 and Caldera 2.3 had
> Graphic setups in them. If the person is going to throw up his hands
> and quit at the first little set back, he needs to stay with M$
> Windows. I feel LINUX is for thoughs that are willing to accept the
> challenge to use a great system that will require them to think about
> what the computer is doing, not just set and be spoon feed. This is the
> meat of computing, not the milk. It is for people ready to take control
> of their computer, not have the computer, control them. That said,
But in the real world it is very different than you see it, someone who has
only even seen a widows machine will expect "any" other operating system to
be like windows, that is exachtly what i experiance here when explaning the
linux operating system to protentional users, i have even experianced just
what i wrote.
>
> Good night Hal, we give you control of the ship to sleep. *G*
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Regards Richard
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Merry Xmas.
