Off track

[Chanchao]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 19:21 -0400, alex wrote:

> With respect to the relative ease or difficulty of getting operating 
> systems like MS Windows, UBUNTU and other Linuxes to work, could the 
> amount and type of traffic on forums and lists like this one be an 
> indicator of which system users require more assistance or would it be 
> merely an indicator of the popularity of the system?  This UBUNTU list 
> far outruns the others.

Also you have to look at the type of questions..  A lot of the questions
are just ponderings or 'nice to know' things, or how to set up or
configure some server package.  Like this morning I thought I shared a
folder and made it writable by all, but when I try from my collegue's
computer on Windows, it prompts for a username and password..  That
would be just a 'how to' question that I most likely could also figure
out just reading the Samba docs. 

I see very few questions here that are like 'it completely doesn't work'
or 'something major' doesn't work.  (Sound, screen, etc.)  It's
questions like: "How can I make my second monitor do this or that". 

And most questions have real quick solutions to them. 'man this' or
apt-get install 'that'. 

Cheers,
Chanchao