I have one question for you, and for everyone on the list for that matter.
Did you install Lnx4Win? If not and easy was your primary objective, why
didn't you give it a go?
I would like to hear from anyone else who has installed Lnx4Win and is
using it as a regular
home PC user. I am interested in installing it on several friends and
family members machines
if it will be a viable, useable way for them to use a Linux OS.
b/web
At 11:30 AM 4/20/00 +0100, you wrote:
>On this whole debate..I'm about to stick my head WAAAY over the parapet here
>for you Microsoft haters to snipe at
>
>So, please, don't get me wrong..I'm intregued with Linux, and I'm really
>glad I took the plunge. I'm not in any way having a go at Linux with any of
>my comments.
>
>I was more talking about the technical reasons why Windows is visible to
>Linux, but not vice versa, and thanks for those who've mailed..some off
>list..to explain.
>
>But on the other topic of the ethics, or lack of them, from Microsoft.
>
>I'm a relative newcomer to the world of the PC, in whatever form it takes. I
>hit 41 this year, and touched a mouse for the first time ever only 30 months
>ago. Microsoft have made computing easy for people like me. I've spent a lot
>of time learning how Windows works..not necessarily WHY it works..I'll never
>be a programmer :-)) and consider myself very proficient with the OS. I can
>run my business on Windows, as well as my leisure PC needs..Linux, as it
>stands does not offer me that first option. I haven't found anything I've
>wanted to do on my PC that I cannot do under Windows..I have already found
>that not to be true with Linux.
>
>Hand on heart, even going into Linux with my eyes wide open, armed with the
>PC 'knowledge' I've had from working in a Windows environment, I really
>could not see Linux in it's current form ever seriously challenging Windows
>as the OS of the public. Yes, it may be more powerfiul, yes it may even be
>more 'Flexible' (Whatever that may mean), yes it may be more stable, but for
>an absolute novice they would really, really struggle to get anywhere with
>it. When I was starting out, I spoke to friends who were PC owners, got
>their help, figured the rest out myself. What would the chances be of me
>approaching them and saying I've bought this new PC, it has something called
>Linux on instead of windows..how do I install a program?..and actually
>finding someone to help me? This forum is just great, and has been a HUGE
>help over my first few weeks of using the OS, but if I was starting as a
>total PC newbie, I'd probably never have got this far!!When Linux evolves,
>as it surely will, to the point where it becomes 'newbie friendly', THEN it
>will be a serious alternative for the leisure PC market.
>
>Yes, I understand all of the arguments that Microsoft are only interested in
>their own product, and have no interest in supporting other OS's, but
>frankly...why should they? I have my own tool shop..there is another one up
>the road..if a customer comes in and wants something I don't stock, do I
>send my customer down the road, and risk losing him in the future, or try
>and sell him something else that I have got? I only care about what I sell,
>and when you are talking about your livelihood, whats wrong with that? There
>have been plenty of companies who have enjoyed success on the back of the
>success of the Windows OS
>
>The 'Better Platform' doesn't always win, does it? VHS v Betamax, remember
>that one? Betamax was, technically, a better product, yet VHS was the
>victor. You'll get a better picture off an expensive camera with zoom
>lenses, etc, yet most folks use a point and shoot camera. That, to me, sums
>up this whole thing. Windows is 'Good Enough', and has built up a whole
>industry around itself.
>
>OK (Sits down and waits for the flak)..I've finished!!
>
>Cheers
>
>Andy
>
>
>
