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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: Bill Hoggett <bill_hoggett@lineone.net>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 19:03:05 +0100
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 10:08:30 -0700, "Stephan Schaem"
<tthai@mindspring.com> wrote:
>The problem is with the apps and general UI system.
>Dont know if its still the case, but getting to use an app,
>was getting to know the programmer mind under unix for each and every app.
>With OSX if you learn how to open a file in one app, great chances more then
>that app will use that method.
>I overhead people today in a store discovering why they PC with one click cd burning
>was not working... they put the original cd in the CDRW and the blank in the DVD player.
>Under linux it doesn't take much to have mass user be lost to the point that they need
>human assistance. Would you be ready so offer this support to millions ?
>
>Having a user friendly OS is more then having a tweaked kernal on a CD.
This is simply Microsoft inspired FUD from someone who hasn't used a
modern Linux distro. Try SuSE 7.2 or Mandrake 8.0 before spewing more
of this propaganda.
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Bill Hoggett