[aclug-L] Re: Linux as an alternative to a Windows desktop

["Jonathan Hall" <flimzy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If all you're doing is email and web browsing, that's probably true.

As soon as someone wants to install the latest screen saver, or chat
program, or whatever the latest gadget is... Linux is worlds harder,
sometimes impossible (without root access) for a new user than Windows is.

-- Jonathan


----- Original Message -----
From: "bruce" <bbales@xxxxxxx>
To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:51 PM
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Linux as an alternative to a Windows desktop


>
> On Thursday 12 December 2002 10:28 pm, you wrote:
> >
> > And I still think Windows is better for uneducated computer
> > users.
>
> Guess I should throw in my two cents worth.  My wife has never
> used any Microsoft product.  Completely computer illiterate. In
> August I bought her an old 166MHz box and installed RH 7.2
> and KDE.  I showed her a few things and she now spends three or
> four hours a day  on it - mostly email, surfing the web, and
> playing games.  I have to help out now and then, but mostly
> minor things.
>
> She has never turned it off so I would have to go over the
> login with her again if we went on vacation or if it failed.
> (She turns off the monitor at night.)  If she decides to use
> kword or some other program I would have to get her started.
>
> Windows couldn't be easier for her.  There's no way she could
> have set this up with Linux, but she couldn't have installed
> Windows either.  Once set up Linux is just as easy as Windows.
> bruce
>
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