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dennis@home
"Charlie Tame" <charlie@tames.net> wrote in message
news:OUARBay$HHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Probably not on Debian actually but see this is what you are missing.
> Beryl, Compiz and a couple of others are NOT finished products and the
> community does NOT release them pretending that they are. I said, which
> you and Dennis apparently cannot interpret, "Getting easier", I did not
> say perfect...
I think its you that doesn't understand.. Linux is unfinished and it
probably will remain that way as there will always be a new windows manager
in the wings.. shame they don't fix the simple things first. However they
won't as the existing Linux users and developers can't grasp how hard it is
for a newbie to install and use Linux. How do they expect Linux to actually
take over the desktop when they can't understand something so simple? Its
not rocket science, its understanding your target users. If you look at the
possible users M$ targets 100% while Linux might target 1-2%. Now if you
look at the one laptop per child initiative they are targeting their users
and are using "linux" howevr they have done a proper job and hidden all the
cr@p that you get with most Linux distros.
>> Fortunately the "advocates" here are not in charge of prioritising bug
>> fixes. If so, we would all be tweaking the MBR and xorg.conf from now
>> until eternity.
>
> I have had far worse challenges trying to get things to work under Vista.
>
Are they more difficult or do you just not know how?
People always find things the know easy, just ask a rocket scientist if its
difficult (PS no it isn't).
It would be a waste of time asking you what needs to change in Linux to make
it more acceptable to new users, unfortunately it is people like you that
will be asked and who will guide Linux in the wrong direction.
Its damn hard knowing how simple to make a system.. I know I have worked on
systems that are expected^W required to work for *all* people, not just
people who have been using the product for six months.
news:OUARBay$HHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Probably not on Debian actually but see this is what you are missing.
> Beryl, Compiz and a couple of others are NOT finished products and the
> community does NOT release them pretending that they are. I said, which
> you and Dennis apparently cannot interpret, "Getting easier", I did not
> say perfect...
I think its you that doesn't understand.. Linux is unfinished and it
probably will remain that way as there will always be a new windows manager
in the wings.. shame they don't fix the simple things first. However they
won't as the existing Linux users and developers can't grasp how hard it is
for a newbie to install and use Linux. How do they expect Linux to actually
take over the desktop when they can't understand something so simple? Its
not rocket science, its understanding your target users. If you look at the
possible users M$ targets 100% while Linux might target 1-2%. Now if you
look at the one laptop per child initiative they are targeting their users
and are using "linux" howevr they have done a proper job and hidden all the
cr@p that you get with most Linux distros.
>> Fortunately the "advocates" here are not in charge of prioritising bug
>> fixes. If so, we would all be tweaking the MBR and xorg.conf from now
>> until eternity.
>
> I have had far worse challenges trying to get things to work under Vista.
>
Are they more difficult or do you just not know how?
People always find things the know easy, just ask a rocket scientist if its
difficult (PS no it isn't).
It would be a waste of time asking you what needs to change in Linux to make
it more acceptable to new users, unfortunately it is people like you that
will be asked and who will guide Linux in the wrong direction.
Its damn hard knowing how simple to make a system.. I know I have worked on
systems that are expected^W required to work for *all* people, not just
people who have been using the product for six months.