At Thu, 7 Oct 2010 11:54:20 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Bill Campbell <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > : > > > > I have gone from OpenDesktop on SCO in the early '90s to Linux from 1996 or > > so to OS X shortly after it came out. Â The vast majority of my development > > is on Linux servers, but OS X Just Works(tm), and I don't have to be > > constantly fiddling to get tools working. > > > > The vast majority of desktop users simply want to do things without having > > to worry about it. > > > > I've been using CentOS on my desktop continuously since January 2007 > and on my laptops during the last 2-3 years, and they mostly "just > work." The tinkering I have done with my system largely consists of > stuff I do for fun or as an extension to my work (I've been developing > software for UNIX and similar systems for over 23 years) and has > little or nothing to do with "most" of what my experience of what the > average user needs. > > "Standard" installations come with an office suite, web and email > facilities, some basic sound and video apps, graphics tools and > accessories, not too unlike what comes with Windoow$ or O$-X/MAC$. A > great many of those apps are cross-platform capable and many people > use them on Win or Apple platforms as well (e.g., OO, Firefox, > Thunderbird). > > Having waited 8+ years to make the jump to a Linux that wasn't a royal > battle to install and use, I have settled on CentOS mainly because I > needed it for a job and it was trivially easy to work with even before > I did any tinkering. From what I've seen, Ubuntu, Mint and a few > other Linux distros are just as easy or maybe easier to use, but > there's a myth that "Linux is difficult" and that stigma traumatizes > anyone not willing to try anything new/different from the > hyperinfiltration of M$ Window$ or the glamor of an Apple. The main thing about Linux that is 'hard' is the fact that you have to use your brain and make choices: Which web browser? Which office suite? Which email client? Which desktop? Which Linux distro? For lots of people this is way too much work. I guess if these people looked at, say, cars or clothes the same way they looked at computers, they would ALL be driving boring black Chevys or would have a closet with 100 black suits, 100 black ties, 100 white shits, etc. (Well maybe 100 black T shirts and 100 pairs of jeans.) > > Them's my $0.04 (inflation, ya know...). > > Mark Richter > Software Developer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/markhullrichter > Registered Linux User #472807 > - sign up at http://counter.li.org/ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk
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