Re: First Linux Experience is not going well!

From: Markus Dehmann (markus.cl_at_gmx.de)
Date: 12/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 02:10:09 -0500

G Forsberg wrote:

> "John Bailo" <jabailo@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:q7Mxd.4412$9j5.3994@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>> Wiseguy wrote:
>>
>>> Linux is still, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, an
>>> OS for hackers who love to tinker with systems.
>>
>> Really?
>>
>> Next time you interview some Wal*Mart shoppers, ask how many of them have
>> CS
>> degrees...
>>
>>Now, really,
> I have been using linux/suse for about a month as a means of redusing cost
> for a small company. And it is not easy to operate with when you come from
> a windows system. In as much as I do not fancy ms monopolising and I think
> the idea of open source is the way to go, I must say I do not find my
> installation user friendly. It is, in my terms "not a commercially
> workable product".
> I do not mean linux by itself, but including open office and the likes,
> you just need to be too 'techie' to get it going.

No. The point is: Linux is hard to administer, but easy to use. So, it's
okay for business: A system administrator does the hacking and
administration work and provides the infrastructure for non-hacking
employees who just have to use Open Office, Firefox, Evolution, Opera, all
the KDE applications or whatever. And that's really as easy as windows
applications. Just installing the printer, the network card etc might not
be easy in any case. So, again, there must be a sysadmin to do that work.
But that's actually the same with Windows NT.

Markus

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