On Jan 24, 2008 10:54 AM, Jonathan Hutchins hutchins@tarcanfel.org wrote:
On Thu, January 24, 2008 09:04, feba thatl wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 8:32 AM, Jon Pruente jdpruente@gmail.com wrote:
http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/423-Yanking-the-Window-Shade...
I saw that pop up yesterday in my RSS feeds. It's an interesting exploration for the Windows-bias in the repair industry. "But, Microsoft wouldn't allow it!"
Yeah, neat, but it's not for everybody. I have a good friend, used to do HOWTO's for Comp Services at UMKC - far from computer illiterate. She doesn't want a computer that can do all that sixteen-desktop stuff. Niether does my dad. She uses a Mac and he uses Windows, and they're not going to change. They don't want to, they don't need to.
For the vast majority of computer users - certainly three out of four - the power and control of Linux are unwanted and unneeded. Windows is fine for them, and I don't want to see Linux dumbed down and crippled so that we can "sell" it to those people - only to have to support, maintain, configure and explain it to them. Let them run Windows.
Me, when I have to try to use a Windows box, I'm twitchy about how little control I have over what's happening. It's actually worse on XP than it was on Mac OS8.
That site seems to be down. I found an apparent mirror on google http://www.chineselinuxuniversity.net/news/20935.shtml
Still down.
While I do not want to see Linux dumped down like that either. But seems to me a properly configured Linux desktop is virtually indistinguishable from a Windows desktop to an avg. user