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

[flimzy@xxxxxxxxxx]

And MY point is, that once a person progresses beyond that point, Windows
is much easier.
-- Jonathan


> 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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