Lets face Ubuntu 8.04

[NoOp]

On 06/23/2008 07:32 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Alan Milnes wrote:
> 
>> Michael "TheZorch" Haney wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Windows
>>> *  Installing software is easy
>> 
>> On Windows installing software is incredibly difficult. You need to know
>> where the package is, e.g. find the CD-Rom that was supplied with your
>> printer or hunt all over the internet to find it (hoping you don't
>> download a copy with malware by mistake).
> 
> Hear, hear.  Yesterday the wife was forced to use XP - I hadn't figured out
> how to make OpenOffice do labels, yet, and VirtualBox for some reason can't
> use DDE between Word and Excel.  It turned out that XP can't enable her
> D-Link wireless - even _after_ I searched for and found the install CD -
> that was plug-n-play in Kubuntu.  Well, now I've figured out labels from
> OpenOffice - silly me, I expected it to be in Mail-merge.
> 
>> No I am sorry the idea that installing software on Windows is easy is
>> just a false rumour spread by Microsoft.
> 
> I don't think they've even spread it.  Users seem to just assume it.

Ever try to upgrade a Win98 box to WinXPP or install one from scratch
:-) The same driver issues occur - particularly with multimedia devices,
video & wirless. Sometimes it goes smooth, other times it takes days.
And sometimes if you are using old hardware it just doesn't work at all.
Same issues.

I think the problem is that 99.99% of Windows users have their boxes
delivered pre-configured with "certified hardwared & drivers", so they
never experience the actual installation process. Google is full of Win
links to 'where can I find this driver, my DVD-ROM drive only reads CD's
but not DVD's, the upgrade broke xyz, etc'. So it's not really much
different even with the Win Plug & Pray system. Matter of fact, I used
to make a pretty good side living fixing Win problems for my customers.
I suspect that others on this list still do.