Re: yet another reason not to buy vista...

FJG <none@xxxxxxxx> writes:

Davorin Vlahovic wrote:
On 2007-09-30, FJG <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bull***. All it takes is literacy. Unfortunately, most people are
illiterate. Got a problem? http://www.google.com/linux (universal) or
just see distro's web site (ie. http://www.ubuntu.com) and see their
documentation. The thing is - in Linux, everything is fixable.

On the other hand, what's the most common fix for windows? Reinstall.
How many people can reinstall windows on their own? Less than one
percent of computer users.

Thanks for playing, good night :)

True, only if one can choose one of the 300+ different distros,

Why? Pick one from a list of top five. BTW, are you saying having choice
is bad? If so, go to Cuba or North Corea. I guess people there are content
with not having to make any choices. Oh, wait... people frown upon
one-mindedness.

I mean, WTF dude? How do you buy a car, a house, a computer (ever seen
how many different models are out there), drapes, blankets, clothes,
*socks*, underware? All those choices to make...

never
update or change the kernel (which changes with the whim of LT).

Why? Ubuntu, ie., does this for you. You don't even know when it does
that - it just requests a restart.

Package
managers? What the hell is that.

As in criminal offenses, being uninformed is not an excuse. If you (or
anyone else) started using computers with linux (and not windows, DOS,
OS/2, CP/M, etc) they'd have known and would be flabbergasted by using a
computer without one.

BTW, here we see a typical "i don't want to read" mentality - what
package manager is and what it does is (rather well) explained in
the documentation.

Now I have to not only know which
managers my distro will allow I need to know which repositories my
distro will allow. O Boy all I wanted was to was write a letter.

Why should you even touch those already set up? What, 20k+ programs
(Ubuntu, Debian...) are not enough for you?

Guess thats why most of the younger computer users avoid Linux. They
grow old by the time they learn how to use it. Like the NVIDA driver in
Linux for the GT7600 card 10 pages (from NVIDA) of download,modify and
installation instructions. Windows has the driver built in. Thank
O'reilly for the 900 page Linux in a Nutshell book. Knew I could get
this darn thing booted.

Mandriva has the Nvidia driver built in.





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