On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:51:51 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:38:31 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> The secret of GNU/Linux desktop adoption
>
> Actually, the first comment is VERY insightful, and pretty objective.
>
> The GUI tools for things like sharing printers or network drives just suck
> on Linux, largely because nobody uses them and thus they don't get the kind
> of scrutiny that they do under Windows.
>
> I'm sure someone will point out this or that app that will do it for you,
> but that's not really the point. Put an end user, who has experience with
> one distro down in front of a differnt distro and will they be able to do
> the same things without floundering around?
Maybe not immediately, but pretty soon, I would have thought. The
underlying tools and systems are mostly similar whatever the distro,
unless it's something obscure.
>
> Suppose joe users last job introduced him to Linux, and they used KDE. His
> next job uses Gnome. How productive will he be? Or maybe it uses Fluxbox
> or Window maker. How long will it take him to figure out the system?
Not that long. All you need is a brain and some patience. But that's also
whey some basic familiarity with the CLI is extremely useful in Linux.
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Kier
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