On Thursday 16 Sep 2004 15:44, Chad Martin wrote: > Yup. Being a Linux user for 4+ years, I can say that Linux is still > best suited to running servers. They're advancing on the desktop, and > all my computers run Linux primarily, if not being the only OS on them. > However, it's really only viable as a desktop solution if you have > somebody knowledgable to set the thing up for you in the first place. > Learning Linux system administration from scratch is a pain.
being a linux user for 10 years, I disagree to some extent :) Linux is a desktop OS as well. I use it every day as a desktop PC and so does my non-geek wife and so do the 4 kids and recently my computer illiterate 51 year old sister... Computer illiterates can not reliably install and set up windows either. That's the point. They need it preinstalled or they need someone to set it up for them. I know this because this is one of the things I do. I set up and install software for computer illiterates - mostly windows. But it doesn't matter which one you set up and put in front of a simple user. Its still all point and click these days. But the big difference is that with windows they always can manage to screw it up a lot worse than a linux box :) What most people see as user unfriendly is really just user different. The start button doens't have start on it. You can confuse these people just as easily by skinning XP :) I'm looking forward to longhorn. It will be different and it will break a lot of old software. Linux will likely be more compatible with the older software and make linux look like much more of an alternative for the older PC - and the old users... tim -- --------------------------------------------------------- Tim & Therese Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. --------------------------------------------------------- Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage http://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
