On 06/12/2011 07:54 PM, James McKenzie wrote: > People are tired of using poor quality software written > to a broken OS. Say rather that most people are so used to badly written software and a broken OS that they don't realize how bad things are; they think it's normal. Right now, I'm house sitting for Jerry Pournelle (http://www.jerrypournelle.com) the BYTE columnist and SF author. For years he's been calling both Unix and Linux an employment program for gurus. Mind you, he does stuff on his Windows boxes that most "power users" couldn't understand, but that's different; he understands DOS commands. I'm still trying, off and on, to get him to take another look at Linux. Not Fedora, Ubuntu, because if he's going to try Linux, he's going to need a distro that's as easy to use as possible because he has neither the time nor the inclination for the learning curve that Fedora would require. Still, if I can get him to see how good it is, we'll have a vocal and highly-visible advocate on our side. (Please note that he's not too much of a Windows fanatic. I think he has at least one Linux server here, and I know he's experimented with recent Macs and had good things to say about them.) So getting a Good Word about Linux from his is worth getting because there are a lot of people out there who heed his word. The point is, you have to match the distro to the user, not the other way around. If the OP isn't happy with Fedora, I hope he finds a distro he likes better. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
