On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Simply put, a friend of mine tried to install Solaris and gave up because he was convinced that the graphics card and keyboard were not supported. Forget MAC and the fact that there are digits on the QWERTY keyboard across the top row. The average user simply couldn't be bothered to deal with it.
I'll try to say this as politley as I can but I think more blame has to go to your friend and not the Solaris install. Afterall, thousands of people have figure out how to press '1' with out problems and managed to install Solaris succesfully.
But if you are right and he is an "average" user then should the Solaris community really be working towards maing things nice for the "average" user? Personally, I would put a higher priority on making Solaris the most stable, best perfromaning, reliable OS there is. I feel that the Solaris install is decent. There are a few things that really do need fixed but pretty screens and numlocks is WAY down on the list.
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