Re: RedHat CEO says home users shouldn't use Linux

From: Kingbarry2000 (kingbarrypublic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/07/03 

Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 03:22:51 GMT

"Rune Steffensen" <r.steffensen@c2i.net> wrote in message
news:oprx8g3yjzvaald2@news.c2i.net...
> nessuno meditated and wrote something like this:
>
> > In my opinion what Szulik said makes a lot of sense. Most of the
> > people who haunt this newsgroup are not your average home users, who
> > do indeed want hassle-free operation for everything they do. I love
> > Linux for all the reasons anyone does, but for the average home user
> > it's too hard to use.
>
> At this point in its evolution, I agree.
>
> > I've been programming computers for 40 years (starting with IBM 1620s
> > in 1964), and I don't like computer hassles, either. I want my
> > printer to work smoothly and flawlessly the first time I plug it in.
>
> But still you have a kind of "masochistic" joy struggling with the
> problem? Or at least the kick success?
>
> I think these feelings are what separates "us" from "them". Some of
> us loves solving the troubles we encounter on a computer, other hates
> it. I agree that most will have things smooth working: they want the
> functionallity, not the physical box. Even Windows (or Mac; so I hear)
> is not good enough in "plug-and-play" or other ease-of-use areas.
>
> [snip, problem solving]
>
> > Linux distributions like Redhat have made tremendous progress in
> > recent years in making the installation and operation hassle-free.
> > It's much better than it was. But this is a huge and I imagine hugely
> > expensive thing to do (to design an operating system that will install
> > and operate largely flawlessly on the majority of hardware out there).
>
> Well, in some years we may have standardized a lot more components and
> their interaction in a "PC", so it will be easier to choose any OS with
> no hassle to follow. I hope this will happen in an publically open way
> (as in "free beer" :) so those of us who like it, still can dig
> underneath the surface, and even put our hardware at risk in hazardous
> adventures! (Pewh!)
> :)
>
> --
> -rune
> Incognitus, ergo sum.

For the vast majority of non - programmer / sysadmins ( > 99.99 % ) they
want a hassle free
OS on hassle free hardware which is a combo of TV, VCR, phone, word
processor, email, etc.
MS & Mac are going that way.

For the vast majority of programmer / sysadmins ( > 97.99 % ) they want a
hassle free
OS on hassle free hardware which is a combo of TV, VCR, phone, word
processor, email, etc.
MS & Mac are going that way. They want a rich library to work with at a very
high level. 

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