On Sunday June 8 2003 12:15 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> Look, 90% of the world DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS - they
> buy a computer with Windows already installed. IF they had to
> install it themselves, it's a tough go - especially on a machine
> that requires all kinda special drivers and proprietary BS to get
> it to work properly.
>
> ON THAT SAME NOTE, when I sell a linux computer to a customer,
> it's already installed and configured, the ONLY thing they have
> to do is to put in their ISP's phone number and other settings
> for email, and well, that's about that.
>
> This is an "apples and oranges" thing now. Most of the world DOES
> NOT install their OS. Someone does it for them And in having
> someone do it for them, things are going to get done FOR them
> that they cannot or will not do.
>
> The ONLY OS that's brainlessly installed is MacOS.
>
> Windows is NOT easy to install and configure. OS/2 is NOT easy to
> install and configure. BeOS was NOT easy to install and
> configure. Any version of Windows is not/has not/will not be easy
> to install and configure. Linux is no different.
>
> Wait, sorry, I used to so Solaris setups on Sparcs, and that was
> BRAINLESS as well - I only had to know how to configure the
> networking - which I had to say "yes" to DHCP and then that was
> it.
>
> If you had your first computer experiences with someone
> delivering a system to you with everything already setup and
> configured, what would your perceptions be?
>
> I have customers that are literal "dummies", but yet, they're
> running linux and they don't really know or care less either
> which way. They can surf, do email, chat, play tunes and DVD's -
> they don't care. They don't care that it's not Windows. Nothing
> breaks - so they don't have to worry about it anyways. They never
> have questions for me or call with silly problems because they
> can't have those same problems on the OS they're running.
> Occasionally I explain how to download and install something
> (just double click on the program and it installs!) - and that's
> about it. No dramas.
>
> If you were brought up only using a Mac, every other OS is
> strange and has problems. If you were brought up only using
> linux, every other OS is strange4 and has problems. If you were
> brought up only using Windows, every other OS is strange and has
> problems.
>
> It's a matter of what you're familiar with and how you're basing
> your perceptions, mate.
Alright you, where's the real Stephen an what did you do to
'em? You can't post logical stuff to this list an try'n pretend
you're Stephen. I'm wise to ya bub ;>
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