Red Hat Sez...

[Asher]

[Fve Crathva]

A really, really stupid newbie with no technical aptitude cannot install Windows on his new computer and expect to get it going.

SP

[Ari Rahikkala]

My opinion about the sentence "Linux is not ready for the desktop"

A hacker came up to Alan, who was preparing to meditate. and asked him:

"When will Linux be ready for the desktop?"

Alan answered:

"Did your mother give birth to herself?"

[Q Classic]

I know dozens of "newbies" that can install Windows and have it get going...

you obviously don't have to deal with them on a daily basis at work.

one one particular computer on our deployment, i figure the sysprep.inf file didn't get transferred... so the end user truly and deeply ****t the system by bringing her own dsl settings from home to punch into the tcp/ip settings, rather than asking for the it department to take care of it.

[JohnT]

****t

... JohnT is trying to figure which 5-letter curseword ends in "t", but to no avail...

[Whaleboy]

BSD on servers, Windows on desktops. Linux perhaps for clustering, but thats about it. Thats the current state of things, what OS is best different applications.

I think the BSD kernel is superior to all, although I heard good things about linux 2.6 (as in better than 4.4BSD ). In any case, a nice, easy, good looking interface on top of the BSD kernel would def be far superior to anything .

[Q Classic]

... JohnT is trying to figure which 5-letter curseword ends in "t", but to no avail...

f**k't is proabably better.

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that said, linux is great, but it's not going to be for the non-computer literate user. period. the entire concept of separate accounts for administrator on the computer, administrator on the network, a domain user, and a local user escapes most people. administrator and user ecapes most as well. so there's a lot of *****ing about why a certain program won't install, or why they can't install one of those damned download "accelerators"...

[Fve Crathva]

I bet that if I controlled every aspect of the world, I could get public competence with computers equivalent to current competence with tying shoes inside 100 years.

Originally posted by Ari Rahikkala
A hacker came up to Alan, who was preparing to meditate. and asked him:

"When will Linux be ready for the desktop?"

Alan answered:

"Did your mother give birth to herself?"

He's been running his own kernel patches for too long.

SP

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Fve Crathva
I bet that if I controlled every aspect of the world, I could get public competence with computers equivalent to current competence with tying shoes inside 100 years.

I could do it in two, maybe three years. Although that would probably involve significantly more death.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Exactly the same thing will happen wrt Windows. No doubt about it. A newbie simply cannot install Windows on his new computer and expect to get it going.

Umm...I can

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Exactly the same thing will happen wrt Windows. No doubt about it. A newbie simply cannot install Windows on his new computer and expect to get it going.

You don't have to. It comes installed, and has a nice, easy setup wizard when you first turn on the computer (XP Home that is, which unfortunately I have).

[St Leo]

Originally posted by JohnT

****t

... JohnT is trying to figure which 5-letter curseword ends in "t", but to no avail...

WinNT.

[MRT144]

OS pride is ghey

[Q Classic]

if you think a newbie can't install windows, what makes you think a newbie can install *nix?

even with anaconda?

[Ari Rahikkala]

Originally posted by skywalker
You don't have to. It comes installed, and has a nice, easy setup wizard when you first turn on the computer (XP Home that is, which unfortunately I have).

And so Alan asks that same question again.