ordinary computer user

[Frank McCormick]

> 
> 
> >Having observed a few (six and counting, one Mac-only, two Mac
> >(90%)-Windows (10%), one-Windows95, two Win 98/XP) people using the
> >default Ubuntu account (I created a generic one for guests to play
> >with) and by-and-large they were underwhelmed, if not entirely turned
> >off by Ubuntu. The interface just isn't up to the standards they're
> >used to (especially the Mac users found the interface to be

   I am an almost fanatical  user/promoter of Linux...but find myself
forced to agree. I have to use Win2000 at work- (I use Linux at home
and have two distributions on this machine) -- and the interface is much
more smooth and professional-looking ( to me anyway). Both GNOME and KDE
are valiant attempts to emulate the Win interface. They are
both getting closer but for the millions out there who know only MS, the
differences right now are large, too large to bridge.



> 
> 
> >Some of the points raised seem to elict some rather childish
> >responses from some of the Linux fan(atics) that spread their rather
> >boring propaganda on the (fictional) merits of Linux (let's just say
> >that I've never seen -- let alone HEARD rumours of -- a virus or
> >spyware affecting our corporate network of Win NT (with XP being
> >rolled out slowly) computers (30,000 users)... the head aches and

   I work on a system of about 1500 workstations on a Novell net and
know of only two incidents of virus/spyware infection.
However the rest of your rant here is beginning to resemble something
expected from an MS troll-- "rather boring propaganda on the fictional
merits of Linux" ???

just my 2 cents