linux that works

[Tom Davies]

The idea that "Windows just works" is often held by people that have never 
installed it.  


To compare like with like we need to get linux pre-installed on machines in 
retail outlets and sales-assistants that know facts rather than FUD.  It is a 
project that Cannonical and Ubuntu are making progress with.

Democracy is harder to understand than dictatorships.  Free-markets are harder 
to understand than market dominance.  


However, when pre-installed, there is hardly any differences to point&click 
users except for most of the advantages that linux brings.

Regards from
Tom :)





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From: Nitesh Mistry <mailbox at mistrynitesh.net>
To: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Thu, 20 January, 2011 5:31:04
Subject: Re: linux that works

Reminds me of this quote from the movie Matrix:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/quotes?qt0324324


On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 06:02:16PM +0000, sir alaric wrote:
> 
> Listen, 
> i know that most likely i'll get a canned response to this. that's the way 
>microsoft does stuff. so i expect nothing else.
> 
> but i do have a question.
> 
> when, if ever, is anyone, anywhere, going to make a linux version of anything, 
>that just works.
> 
> sadly, windows does. it has 4000 undocumented features, it freezes every day, 
>even in Arizona, or central africa. but when it's not frozen, it works.
> 
> linux and all it's offshoots, and i do mean all, claim to do what windows does, 
>only better. unfourtunately, it's a lie. unless of course you can spend 57 days 
>tweeking this or that or the other thing. or spending the rest of the year going 
>through the forums. and i mean from starting in january.
> 
> and i don't need the learning curve excuse. if you want people to use linux and 
>stop using windows because it's better and works better, when, if ever, is that 
>going to happen.
> 
> or should i just give up all hope.
> 
> bob 
> 
> ps if you know of a linux version that REALLY TRUELY does beat windows, right 
>out of the box, please tell me what it is. even if it isn't ubuntu.
> 
> 
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