Derek Kalweit wrote: >> What window manager? What office package? What multi-media player? What >> drawing package? What printing manager? You have a choice. Stop me if >> you've heard this before..... > > That's exactly the problem. Joe Schmoe, who is only roughly computer > literate and only has worked with Windows does not know HOW to make > that choice. They want to be told how to do it.
Good thing Joe doesn't have buy a car. The WSJ noted that there are over 400 makes and models available as of the beginning of 2007. More if you count machines whose names end in 'i'. <s> > To me, the only distrib I've used that I can see as being mostly > headache-free for an end-user would be Ubuntu. I used Redhat/Fedora > before which I would not put in the same class of usability. I can't Well, define 'before'. <s> RedHat made a biiiiiiig ol' 'whoopsie' when they tossed the desktop idea. SuSE has done a GREAT job in that area, although I don't care for their interface (despite being a KDE kind of guy.) Fedora is NOT intended to be a OS for Grandpa. Although in the five years I've been using Linux, with a half-dozen distros, FC6 is by far the best I've seen. I've moved the kids machine to it, and they love it. Rock solid (and trust me, four kids find all sorts of ways to trash a computer...) In fact, when I installed it on the kids machine, my 11 year actually did the install, coming up to ask me questions when it asked something he didn't understand. And he's NEVER done an install before. The only thing I did was connect the box to our file server with the appropriate permissions. What I'm saying is that FC has come a long way in three years. I suspect they'll break it with FC7, given their new direction, just like Win 3.0 was, er, not pretty. Or XP sans SPs. Or SuSE 10.0. <g> I've got FC6 on every desktop here except my old W2K clunker and I am darn tootin' happy. For the first time in a long time, I have NO complaints. > say I've used many others, but it appears Ubuntu finally got a > packaging system that mostly works. Sadly, as a linux server admin, > they should make it more clear that you have to turn on the 'universe' > repositories if you really need the software you're installing that > they don't support... Instead, they simply say they can't find it... I may give Ubu another try one of these days, but... they give a fairly short shrift to Kubu, which saddens me. Oh, rats, there's that damn "choice" business again. Why can't EVERYONE listen to Ted Nugent and let all those other guitar players go back to busing tables? Whil _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
