On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 20:48:02 -0600, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's getting mighty simple now, redhat 6.0 was as easy for me to install as
> win98, maybe easier? To simply use the resulting installation as a
> workstation was equally easy, using the GUI just as one uses w9x. The
> basic necessary applications were already there, and I found it not
> terribly difficult to add a couple applications myself, licq being one of
> them.
People that I know usually dont want to use Linux because:
1)Most of the games they play do not exist on Linux.
(Games appear to be Windows's killer application.)
2)Linux is still not supporting hebrew enough to allow hebrew-only
speaking people in Israel to use it. (Yes, I know that computers
require english but Windows managed to appeal somehow to non-english
speaking people.).
3)The need to make a new partition. Most of them dont know what it is,
when you explain they usually run away because it sounds too
technical for them. I know about UMSDOS, but I keep hearing that
its quite bad.
4)On my computer, Linux Red Hat 5 and SuSe Linux 6 actually took
more time to load then Windows 95. (I know that you people are going
to kill me for what i've just said, but its the truth.).
I checked why, and found out that it was because I had too many
modules loading that I didnt need. Unfortunatly, I didnt knew
which module do what, and there was no good help about it in
either installer or documentry file. So I just left that untouched..
which is exactly what a less-experienced user will do, only without
checking why its so slow. For them, linux will just appear to be
"a slow OS.".
5)Windows 95's greated problem, is that its "generating" problems
too fast. Linux is stable in the way that it doesnt "generate"
problems all by itself. :) But when it comes to fixing them,
well, it was harder for me to fix Linux problems then fixing
Windows problems. Then again, maybe its because i'm still barly
a Linux newbie. But I still claim that DOS is the easiest to fix! :)
6)Most of Linux is based on the consule. Ok. I like the consule.
Infact, there are a few things that I would love to have on DOS.
Unfortunatly.. the common user really, really hate the consule.
Doesnt matter if its a DOS prompt, "DOS Window" on Windows, or
a consule/x-term on X, they HATE it. So until Linux will be completly
GUI.. forget it. And I mean EVERYTHING. Not just the applications..
A wizard for every tiny script file. Thats what they want..
.. But I dont want that. And most (experienced, usually) Linux users
do not want as well.
Or Botton
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