ubuntu-doc Digest, Vol 76, Issue 16

[Evalyn Gossett]

Well thank you for your post. I agree, I had a big learning curve with my
first computer, (Commodore 64) geez, but I did love those BBS once I figured
how to connect to them.

then along came dos and all that mess, but i got into it, and still have a
couple of dos command books. they are yellow and all but i keep them.

then Windows. supposedly so easy and I cannot tell you how many times i
reinstalled those 32 3.5 floppy disks. and taught my son how to do it. on an
IBM which only had 30 gb hd.

So now here I am learning Ubuntu and Kubuntu. I love it. but I will teach my
friends and family to use it out of the box. they won't need the terminal
either.

My son will love it, once MOMMY gets it.

hahahaha



On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:00 AM, <ubuntu-doc-request at lists.ubuntu.com>wrote:

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>   1. Re: Linux that just works (Joe Spooner)
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>
>
> Windows Just works?
> well in some cases yes, you want to listen to an MP3 right out of the box.
> great. it does just work. with Linux its an FOSS issue. many distros don't
> have it "out of the box" because of the FOSS issue. is that a bad thing?
> yes
> and no. Windows, Like Mac OS was designed for limited User intervention.
> sure if you really want to you can bring up a command prompt/Terminal but
> its rather hidden. Linux on the other hand brings it out into the open. its
> right there if you need it. many Distro's like Ubuntu try to make it as
> user
> frendly as possible providing a "helping hand" in terms of GUI's and
> documentation.
>
> here are some main points Linux does right out of the box, windows doesn't
> Drivers, the little programs we love to hate. everytime we do an install we
> know we will spend sometime downloading configuring and setting them up.
> Linux has them built in (without reguard to wireless in some cases) there
> is
> virtually no drivers to install in a Linux system.
>
> Package Management. Windows doesn't have any. its all based on the user
> going to google/yahoo and downloading a .exe and installing it. and neither
> does OS X. Linux has many utilitys for that very purpose. just apt-get
> install or Yum install. and its done. I think that qualifys as "just works"
>
> in reguards to the Op saying "don't mention the learning curve" well it
> needs to be mentioned, because Windows/ OS X does have a learning curve.
> when you first used windows/OS X for the very first time. I will bet you
> had
> no idea what you were doing. Linux is the same way.
>
> If I may give an example, My father came to me several months ago
> complaining about how windows XP had gotten very slow. I thought about it
> for awhile. weighed my options. 1. install windows over again, and in 6-12
> months do it all over again "windows Rot" or try and teach him how to use
> Linux. My father is by no means a Tech person. he is in fact a diesel
> mechaninc who to be honest can't stand computers. I installed Ubuntu
> 8.10LTS
> on his computer. the first things out of his mouth was "that computer is
> way
> faster, what did you do to it?" I never bothered to teach him about the
> Terminal, because the way he uses it. it was not needed. all things he
> needs
> to do are easily done with the GUI's that have been added to Ubuntu for
> that
> very purpose.
>
> if you take nothing else from this reply. take this
>
> provided the proper or improper set of circumstances any OS will Just work
> or not.
>
> thank you for your time,
> Joseph Spooner,
> SysAdm
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