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Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Linux as an alternative to a Windows desktop
From: bruce <bbales@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:17:31 -0600
Reply-to: discussion@xxxxxxxxx 
On Friday 13 December 2002 12:10 am, you wrote:
> 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.
>
Screen-savers are easy with KDE.  She is satisfied with the one 
I put on it and she has no desire to "chat."

The point is, whatever she wants to do takes a little help.  If 
she were using Windows, it would still take a little help.  
That falls in with the definition of computer illiterate.

bruce
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