Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:33:33 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.1.125 ... pre-2.2 imminent |
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On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Olaf Titz wrote: > > I disgaree. I think that NT is not, and has never been, a threat > > to Linux. The latest NT abortion is no different. > > It is. People who never have really _used_ a computer get bombarded > with trade magazine articles which consistently tell that "NT is the > future". So these people decide that "NT is the future", and NT will > be used, and Unix abandoned.
But people who never used a computer are the most easy part of mankind to convince to use Linux. They're not used to crashing computers and are annoyed if their computer crashes, unlikely `experienced' M$ users. I remember girls, almost with tears in their eyes, `it's not possible that it crashes that much, it must be me'...
Real newbies have to learn how to use a computer anyway. Chosing `start' to shutdown your computer is counter-intuitive. Learning simple UNIX commands is not much more difficult than learning the M$ logic.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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