<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi! Dotan Cohen wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:880dece00807300618i406b88av18ec8951e1d0a31@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">2008/7/30 Gilles Gravier <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gilles@gravier.org"><gilles@gravier.org></a>: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">As I mentionned : - Live CD - Free updates (no registration) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> >From experience, that won't interest home users! We need a 'you can do this' not a 'you are free from this' approach. And home users won't need a LiveCD. </pre> </blockquote> Nope. But users TRYING Ubuntu for the first time will appreciate the LiveCD "Hey, you can try it without destroying your original PC if you aren't sure yet"... <blockquote cite="mid:880dece00807300618i406b88av18ec8951e1d0a31@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">By the way, panoramas in Windows are much better with professional tools like AutoPano (unfortunately unavailable on Linux) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> AutoPano for Linux: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.autopano.net/buy-autopano/download.html">http://www.autopano.net/buy-autopano/download.html</a> </pre> </blockquote> Thanks! One LESS reason to keep the big Windows machine at home (now that GIMP/uRAW can read my Canon RAW files). :) <blockquote cite="mid:880dece00807300618i406b88av18ec8951e1d0a31@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""></pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">OK... You can add : - Zonefree DVD playing (with libdvdcss installed) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> That's a good one! </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">- No need for an antivirus </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> That's a great one! </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">- In general the sheer quantity of similar functions that you get on Vista... but for free. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Can you provide precise examples (I am unfamiliar with Vista, fortunately). </pre> </blockquote> Nope. Not a Vista user. But it's got a lot of eye candy... you mentionned the panorama tool, there is the media player, video editor, mail, web... all that pre-included. Direct download of photos from cameras. Printing (without having to configure CUPS). Automatic network discovery. So many things that make life easier... that are on Linux as well... but sometimes you need to do just a little bit of extra work to get it perfect. <blockquote cite="mid:880dece00807300618i406b88av18ec8951e1d0a31@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Keep in mind that most modern operating systems can mostly all do the same things... just in different ways (different costs, different GUIs, different constraints). So trying to show things that can't be done on Vista will : 1) Be hard 2) Lead to a pissing contest where Vista will likely win in "number of proprietary features not available on Linux" </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Good point. Maybe we could point out ease of use. I don't think that customization is a good point either, but for some people it is important. </pre> </blockquote> Ease of use is critical. People still think Linux = geek OS... 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