On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:27 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: > Hi all > > Can I please state for the record that I am a complete Linux supporter. I > have been with Mandrake since version 6 and although having left the arena, > so to speak, for sometime now I still believe that linux is the best OS > system around and Mandrake the best version. > > What my original e-mail was trying to show (and I apologise for not making > this clear) is the average end user perspective. There is much talk here, > as there always has been, of Linux-v-Windows and I was just illustrating, > after my installation of XP, as to what a windows user must think when > faced with Md9 or any other linux version for the first time. > > In my opinion too much time and effort is directed towards "converting" the > windows user to linux and basically I was showing that although linux is by > far the better of the two, XP gives people what they want and damn fast. > > Some of you have said that chaning desktops will improve preformance but as > I originally stated I don't want to, again getting my head into a windows > users perspective where KDE or Gnome is the more familiar. Showing some > new person Enlightenment or even ICEwm is not going to impress at all. > They want familiararity, hence my choice of desktop. > > I hope this has made my stance clear, > > Andrew Not a problem here Andrew, I understood what you were saying. Although some folks maybe did not. The point is well taken and I agree. Problem is, most people don't look before they leap and as I mentioned end up with chains on their legs and hands cause they didn't know the consequences of their actions. On the other hand there are people like my wife who do not (not cannot) want to learn a few things to break their bonds. My wife is a AOL user and windows is her game, period. Oh, I'll get her eventually, and folks on the list keep feeding me more ammunition, so one day she will change. If that's all right with her of course. (Husbands' copout sentence). : P -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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