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07-29-2005 09:11 PM |
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Originally posted by Skrilla
I guess the biggest reason why I present this to you all is because I'm among the huge percentage of the market that is NOT EDUCATED on Linux. This is NOT my problem nor is it the rest of the market's problem. This is the Linux Community's problem and we think something should be done.
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What he means is that if Linux is going to win the distro war against windows, Linux needs to educate the windows users and start making easier to use distros. I have realized that many users don't think that there is an OS war and that Linux and windows should co-exist - each OS being good at their respective tasks. "Linux is a windows alternative and not a windows replacement." - I disagree with that. Linux is definetily ready to replace windows for many if not most users. The only issue is really support for various hardware, which really can make linux buggy and hard to set up. I also think that Bill G has enough money and I would love to see a lot of windows user convert to linux as much as I would hate it if MS would take over the market in new to computer developing countries.
Many linux users feel that new users should educate themself to such a level that they can handle the linux system. I feel that that is a rather old fashioned statement. Computers were originally made to solve complex differential equations. This saved a lot of time for the scientists, since calculations were made automatically and much faster. Then new applications appeared that made computers useful in many other ways, but the point is when computers do things automatically it saves time for the users.
Let's see what the founder of linux has to say about this:
" It also makes me personally convinced that if we are still talking in a big way about operating systems fifteen years from now, something is seriously wrong somewhere. ... Statistically speaking _nobody_ wants an operating system. In fact no-one even wants a computer. They want a magical toy that can be used to browse the web, write term papers, play games, balance the check book, and so on. The fact that you need a computer and an operating system to do all this is something that most people would rather not think about. ....where is Linux itself, and open source in general, in all this? You won't even know. It will be inside all those ... machines. You'll never know it, but its there, making it all run. " --Linus Torvalds
He says that a computer should just work and you shouldn't have to be concerned about what is inside, behind the apps. I guess that's the future for the operating systems.
It will take some time before we get there, but I hope linux gets there before MS. So the linux community better start making user-friendly apps and intelligent configuration guis.
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