Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?! (OT)

[Mohammed Arafa 2 Mailing Lists]

its unfortunate but linux still has a ways to go before its idiot friendly enough to become a mainstream desktop. why do i say this? my understanding of the mac is that the os goes down on the mac and the hardware is identified and drivers installed: painless windows is somewhat similar but u may have to fiddle around with drivers and search for them. mandrake linux is getting there (a friend of mine spent a week installing suse 2/3 years back .. i gave him lm8.1 and now he only talks about mandrake as the install only took 2 hours) and yet there are problems. mainly hardware, then education ..the howto's are there but they arent that simple to follow .. what if the howto's talk of a directory which isnt where its supposed to be? instead of being aaa/bbb/ccc/xxx/yyy/zzz its actually in aaa/zzz. the user might not know how to search for it. what i am trying to say is mandrake is on the correct path to this 100% idiot friendly installation and use. they should implement lsb1.0 and li18nux1.1 as quickly as possible and then build up from there. take a step to the side so to speak and build up on the ease of use in other areas. there are lots of things that could be said but for the moment .. lm is "ishta"-creme de la creme of the linux world for me   "salam" - peace   ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrei Raevsky To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 6:12 PM Subject: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?! Hi, I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux.  A friend of mine is a really "religious" Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux.  I would like to help him with this. Please send me any good articles (or links) you have. Thanks, Andrei ------------------------------------------- Registered Linux user 226850 Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com