On May 15, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Allen wrote:
> Well lets face it you need to convince more than just me.
I have no interest in convincing you. My only interest is to perhaps
educate you so that if you have any honesty, you'll stop repeating
things that are not true.
> I still say that although Linux has made leaps it is still not ready
> for big time.
Yet you never cite actual experience. I first installed Red Hat
almost 10 years ago, and it was not very easy. The next version I
installed, about 2001, was infinitely easier. Since 2004, Fedora and
Ubuntu have made installers and program managers easier than Windows,
and almost as easy as Macs to set up.
Let's say you have a Windows box and an Ubuntu box without, say,
Thunderbird installed. On Ubuntu, you open the package manager (ooohh,
it's a menu choice! So difficult!), type 'Thunderbird' in the 'search'
box, see the matching entry in the list, click it to select it, and
then click 'install'. You then go to the main menu, select
Thunderbird, and go.
Now how would we do this on Windows? You'd have to open a web
browser, use Google to search for Thunderbird, select the match that
looks like it is the correct one, go to that web page, click a couple
of links to download it, find the downloaded file, double-click to
unzip it, run through the unzip wizard (really???), find the unzipped
installer, double-click that, follow the instructions by clicking 'OK'
several times, finish, and then delete the zip file andthe installer.
You then go to the main menu and select Thunderbird, or double-click
the desktop icon, and go.
Which of those two sounds easier?
-- Ed Leafe
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