Andreas Ramos wrote:
>
> What's the answer?
>
> A few weeks ago, Ralph Nader, the consumer activist in the US, sent an open
> letter to Microsoft and computer manufacturers, proposing that when a user
> buys a computer, the user will first see a screen that lets the user select
> which operating system she will use: Windows 95, Unix, or OS/2.
>
> I burst out in laughter when I read that. Poor Mr. Nader. Poor users.
> Imagine the chaos if this were to happen. Gateway, Compaq, Dell, etc. would
> spend millions of hours, just trying to get millions of users to turn off
> Unix and get back to Windows 95. The worst damage would be caused by unix
> fanatics who constantly insist that "Unix is better" which would mean that
> millions of poor users would install unix on their systems and then never
> get anything to work.
Must be the same way I burst out in laughter when I read that MS said
that IE is a needed componet of Windows.
> Look, folks: I use unix. But I know damned well that for 99% of users, unix
> is hopelessly complex.
Must not be that hard though, I tought a class on unix system usage last
year. I have people that have never used unix proficent as a user
within 3 weeks... In windows it took them all semester to understand the
basics.
Really though, unix is no more complex to users than windows is. You
set everything up for them (same as PC makers do for windows) and give
them some taining on the commands and they will be mving arround at the
same speed as in Windows.
> PC makers know this. They will never put unix on PCs for home users, simply
> because they could never began to support 10 million users. Most of the
> users would simply think that the computer was broken and return it.
And 3 PC makers and Corel are pusing for more Linux installed systems
and Linux bassed software. PC magazines are also giving more good light
to the Linux OS, other than it is the "hackers" OS.
> Sun, one of the main unix companies, is infamous for their scornful attitude
> towards naive users: if you don't know unix, you shouldn't be messing around
> with our machines. I know; I wrote one of their developer's manual.
Wonder if they got that saying from using VMS ... that is one of the
worst OS's I have used.
> So what's the answer? Use Windows or Mac.
There is still Linux.
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