Michael Schwendt said: > IMHO, the key to understanding such comments is to not read between the > lines. Szulik specifically refers to "device-drivers" and "traditional > functionality [...] for that classic consumer purchaser" which refers to > multimedia applications implemented in both hardware and software and > also includes the field of games. This is not about a security > standpoint. This is not a superficial "Windows vs. Linux" comparison. > This is about avoiding false expectations. This is about (re-)defining > the target group of current [Red Hat] Linux. In particular, Linux is > either not ready with regard to multimedia content, e.g. movies, sound, > plugins. Or it confronts the user with low-level details, which can > cause serious frustration among users who have got a false impression of > Linux based on media coverage (=hype). Michael, You raise some very good points. My wife is a brilliant woman, and no stranger to computers and how they work (she worked for five years as a software consultant for Vantive and Peoplesoft). However, every time she's considered trying out Linux for her desktop, I've discouraged her. I only need think of how frustrated she gets when something goes wrong on her Windows computer, and I know that having her try Linux would be bad on her health and mine. She wants her wireless card to work just by plugging it in; for my Debian laptop, I spent six hours writing and configuring a shell script that would allow me to switch to wireless on my laptop once the card was in. I'm a lot more patient than she is, and I imagine that the majority of us on this list are the same way. (Of course, on the other hand, I frequently lose patience with Windows because it never lets me do exactly what I want to do!) Sláinte, Richard S. Crawford http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com/catseyeview AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Y!: rscrawford MSN: underpope@xxxxxxxxxxx Howard Dean for America: http://www.deanforamerica.com "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupéry -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
