Re: Another Linux Myth Exposed - Hopeless at playing music ..

Chris Cox wrote:

Ian Semmel wrote:
<sniü>

Linux is still locked into Nerdland and will not make any impression on
the wider market.

There's certainly a bit of truth to this... however, Linux is
continuing to grow.... and it's growth is (obviously) extending
outide the "nerdland" market.

Yep, my mother wouldn't class herself as a nerd, but since I gave her my old
laptop at Christmas with SUSE 10 installed, she hasn't touched her Windows
machine! I have to upgrade the desktop next time I go visit...

It does play MP3's as well, but she doesn't listen to music much and doesn't
own any CD's to rip - she has about half a dozen audio cassettes of Rod
Stewart and similar, but that's it. She doesn't think much of films either,
she watches East Enders and Coronation Street on TV, and that's about it
from what I can gather, the rest of the time she reads... So more ludite
than nerd-like. :-D But she loves her Linux laptop, although she mostly
play Gnometris, she's whacked my highscore off the list, she is heading off
somewhere into the 60k at the moment!! :-O

Dave
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