Author: James Swafford
Date: 06:50:19 12/08/01
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On December 08, 2001 at 08:58:21, Frank Phillips wrote: >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 OK. I'll speak from my experiences. Personally, I would sooner tell my clients to find another consultant before trying to teach them how to use Linux. Not that they are wizards with Windows, but they have become accustomed to it, they are pretty comforatable with it, and it doesn't take much to get them confused. What goes on 'downstream', past the clients' workstations, is another matter. Personally, I run both a Linux machine and a Windows machine. At the university labs we run mostly Solaris, but there are some Win2000 boxes in the mix. More to the point, you are right in the sense that most users know jack about what an OS does. They don't need to know what a kernel is, about scheduling, threads, security, etc. But they definitely know when they're confused, and I know that would be _all the time_ for several weeks (or even months) if I put a new OS in front of them. My pager has gone off because _icons were moved_ ! No, I'm not religous enough about any OS to take that much punishment. :) My clients will stick with Windows as long as I have a say in the matter. -- James
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