On 23/05/11 09:53, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Martin Houston wrote:
The hard disks in the Race Online PCs are all 80G at least so why is
dual booting not an option there as standard.
Because it's confusing. If people are learning to use computers, it
makes sense that they boot into one install of one OS to do the
learnings of the fundamentals. Continually switching between Linux and
Windows is going to be horribly horribly confusing, even if you do
concoct some scheme whereby all the files are similarly conveniently
placed in each OS.
Why are people being forced to choose before they know anything?
They're specifically not. If, on first boot, they were presented with
Grub asking if they wanted Linux or Windows, *then* they would be
forced to choose. Here, the choice is being made for them.
I am going to try to get the Guardian involved in running this as a
campaign. Why should anyone buying a reconditioned PC be denied the
chance to try Linux?- If it is only a matter of the right disk image
getting put on in minutes?
They're not being denied the chance to try it, they're just not having
the opportunity thrust upon them.
Is it a problem that they're also being 'denied' the chance to try OSX?
As they are recruiting digital champions its down to those individuals
who are doing the teaching, if you ask me to show you the internet using
my own pc i will be running ubuntu, if you ask other members of the
devon and cornwall lug they use other distributions, if you ask someone
that uses a mac they will show you the same on a mac,
if others use windows they wil be shown using windows, its a case of
having more digital champions the first group will say the operating
system should not have anything to do with how you use the net, as it
just provides a way to load a browser ;/ mail client.
paul
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