Messages in this thread | | | From | teamwork@freemail ... | Subject | Re: Linux vs Microsoft | Date | Mon, 19 Oct 1998 03:59:41 GMT |
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Someone said: "If Linux is to seriously compete with M$ on the desktop, something will have to be done in order to ease the burden of installation and configuration for the non-technical user community. No small task. Of course Linux was no small task either."
Alan replied: "You keep forgetting - the average user couldnt install windows 95 either,not and then sort out the video cards and other stuff. They solve it by buying preinstalled machines."
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With all due respect, Mr. Cox, your "average user" definition does need an upgrade.
Not all "average users" are nincompoops. I have seen many "average users" successfully installed Windoze 95 on their machine themselves. They are not "gurus" or "wizards" of any kind, and most of them don't know enough to code up a working C or even Visual-Basic program.
Ask the same "average users" to install Linux however, and most will throw up their hands.
The level of difficulty to install Windoze from scratch and that of installing Linux is _not_ the same. It _does_ require a higher level of computer literacy for a successful Linux installation (even with the RedHat's almost no-brain installation process.)
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Alan also said: "Nowdays you can do the same for Linux"
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_Even_ if it is "same," it still won't do any good for Linux.
Edward De Bono once said something along this vein: "One should not rely on the opponents' weakness to achieve success. True success only comes based on ones' true merit, and not on the opponents' mistakes."
And if we apply this in the Linux / Windoze context, Linux can only truly win over the "average users" market based on a foolproof and E-Z installation process designed specifically for people who has "less-than-average" technical know-how.
Respectfully, Pete teamwork@freemail.c3.hu
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