Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 05:58:21 12/08/01
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On December 07, 2001 at 17:41:32, James Swafford wrote: >On December 07, 2001 at 15:27:13, ERIQ wrote: > >>WAKE UP !!! I think people after dealing w/ ms this time will think twice before >>their next os purchase. I think most have comps. for games but if that is the >>case wouldn't it be better to get a sony playstation II. further more for >>business clearly you could use linux, dos, or mac X. So we do have a choice. I >>think people just think that they are hooked ?!?! >> >> sign, >> Eriq > > >Clearly you could use DOS? As in "MS-DOS"? :) No, clearly >that's not an option at all, at least for 99% of businesses. > >Most business users aren't exactly "super users" either, so I'd >hate to throw Linux at them. Linux is great, but it's not for >the mainstream. Not at the client level, anyway. > >I'd like to hear your arguments for Mac X. I don't know much >about it... > >-- >James I suspect that the average computer user knows as little about WIndows as they do about Linux or any other OS - and rightly so. For most people it is just a tool. Switch on, click on the Word processor icon etc. One of the problem Linux seems to still have (and I am a fan and use it instead of Windows now) is insisting that Linux has to be different and you need to understand why what you do works. I have even seen some hardcore gurus arguing that the latest set of point and click Mandrake tools to set up your modem etc are a bad thing - and ridiculing others because when it does not work they do not know what to do. Frank
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