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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: "sands-of-iowa" <sands@cableone.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 01:19:56 -0500
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Just who is this $300 computer being buildt for?
some geek who likes 3" thick manuals about command lines
or who wants to play with electronics?
or is it for the people who can not afford the fancy computers
if its for the last you have to make the OS simple along the lines of Mac
or Geos or you will not sale many if its hard to use. and your stockholders
with not be happy.
David Ogg wrote in message ...
>In article <t0n8mt46ifup9ilnuv1bnca1ov4nsm4hf4@4ax.com>, usenet-20010705
>@barnyard.co.uk says...
>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:09:23 +0000 (UTC), Stephen Shaw
>> <xstephenx@apple2.org.za> said:
>>
>> >Anyone who can use a command line as per the Apple II shouldn't find
adapting
>> >to Linux very difficult. It is only GUI users (like Windoze) who find
things
>> >"unfriendly".
>>
>> "Unix isn't unfriendly, it's just very particular about who its
>> friends are."
>
>LOL I love that line ;)
>
>There are things in linux that it really is harder to do than in
>Windows, but these things (like routing, wierd protocols like PPPoE)
>are things usually done by someone who should probably spend a little
>time learning anyway.
>
>Sure linux has a learning curve, but it's a freaking computer, when did
>the notion that computers had to be usable by people who didn't want to
>learn anything become popular?