On Tuesday 17 April 2007 18:54:09 Rick Stuart wrote: > I feel like the real concern voiced by Valent Turkovic has been missed > by all three of the responses I saw. What are we expecting the average > Joe who wants to try out this cool new thing called Linux to feel? He > can load it up and see a pretty twisty graphic but then can't get the > simplest thing like web browsing to work without installing a lot of > extra packages that are only obvious by a long Google search, abuse on > the forums (RTFM) or a previous experience. > > If you are going to build a live CD (Excellent Idea by the way) for > people to try out Linux, then concentrate on the total experience. Look > at what "typical" users do and make sure they have success. Valent hit > the nail on the head....KDE...GNOME....why should that matter? GNOME > doesn't work any better with Totem BTW. These comments are unfounded. You certainly can browse the web all you want. If you run across a site that needs flash, firefix helpfully directs you to Adobe/macromedia where they have a rpm already for you that integrates nicely. And there is _plenty_ of web space out there without proprietary crap on them. To state that you can't do the simplest things like web browsing is a bunch of horse crap and FUD. Furthermore, Totem works just fine regardless of Gnome or KDE, the OP didn't _use_ totem. If you're going to send slanderous comments at least have the courtesy of backing them up with facts, proof, and bug numbers. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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