____/ Jeremy Fisher on Wednesday 16 April 2008 22:58 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Linux for Grandma - Part III, Finale
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | For limited use, like browser based applications only, there is no
>> | reason not
>> | to use Linux. In fact, most people in her case wouldn't know the
>> | difference. The three main reasons to use Linux are that it works, it is
>> | free, and runs
>> | on low end hardware fairly well. Nor did I need the overhead of
>> | anti-virus and anti-spyware software.
>> `----
>>
> I do start to cringe when I read posts like this, although I agree with what
> is being said, I find the sentiments to be wrong, why shouldn't Grandma
> have a medium to high end machine, the fact that the OS is free is not that
> important in this description of a system, the fact that it is Open Source
> is far more important, maybe a bit pedantic. Its the inference that Linux
> based system is best run on older machines, and that other lesser systems
> should be installed on new boxes.
I agree entirely. That indeed comes to show that Linux is not a problem at all.
It's only a problem if the user actually /thinks/ of it (a kernel is ideally
totally out of sight). What's important are the applications, of which
GNU/Linux has plenty of very advanced ones (including specialised ones that
are used in production studios). Unless the user requires a program that is
not available for Linux *and* cannot run in Wine, there's no flaw in Linux.
It's only a myth or a perceptual thing.
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