In regard to Dell making Ubuntu an option, end users really have little
(if anything) to do as most common packages will be installed, Ubuntu
configured for the hardware and lcd etc etc.
Synaptic might be a little bit much (read too complex) for new users,
but there is the simplistic application add/remove utility isn't there
(Bottom of the start button menu in Gnome)? Packages grouped in a more
simplistic manner and it seems little things like dependencies handled
transparently.
I wouldn't be advising 'newbies' to go playing with 'apt' which is
really wonderful for those who know what they are doing with it. Long as
users leave their apt sources alone and stick to the package add/remove
utility they can't go too far wrong.
Yet for all this trying to remove complexity from the end user and
provide everything in GUI wrappers, Microsoft appear to be making an
effort to go the other way too, Powershell for example.
Cheers
L
Jamie Dobbs wrote:
On Thu, May 3, 2007 9:14 am, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Thu 03 May 2007 08:51:32 NZST +1200, Campbell McKenzie wrote:
Mepis and Ubunutu are great for new users because if they want new
software
they can use Synaptic (aka apt-get)
New users means they'd want a "desktop". You want to put Linux on the
desktop with apt-get? Perhaps next Millennium. Until then you'd have to
come up with something better, i.e. graphical, to break the "Linux is
only for geeks" association.
Well frankly this is crap. synaptic is a user friendly front end to
apt-get, just as yast tries to be a user friendly front end to rpm. With
ubuntu, or mepis (both apt based) you get a desktop that works. Its a
fact, live with it.
Agree 100%, as a former Gentoo user now on Ubuntu I find Ubuntu to be very
very good for my needs, easy to maintain and update and above all else
very reliable.
