From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
> "Geo"  wrote in message
news:44c8033b{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Vista will sell like crazy, and the only thing it needs to really
>>> have ready and working is all the visual gimmicks. All the
>>> rest, MS has years to stitch that together.
>> I think vista is actually going to hurt hardware sales because people
>> won't buy a new machine because they don't want to move to vista.
>
> Well I disagree with that, I think it'll drive HW sales because people love
> to get anything that's flashy and pointless, at any cost. Think Mac...
>
>
>> I think the DRM and copy protection are going to be the main
>> reason
>
> For knowledgeable people, sure, but Joe Average and his Aunt May won't know
> what it is anyway.
>
>
>> as most people don't know the difference between dos and
>> unix let alone how windows works.
>
> Well Linux for sure won't be a factor unless Vista delays another 5 years
> (not too unlikely it seems ). Just look at the posts in .linuxhelp:
> almost without exception, for each and every question the answer contains
> command line and/or config files. That just doesn't fly. What flies is
> anything preinstalled in the most standard computers available from your
> local store, and I think MS is pretty strong there.
>

Nah. Everything Randall has wanted has had a GUI way of doing it, but to
would be fedora specific as to where it was & frankly I ain't used
fedora in ages & then I was running KDE.

There is no reason that I have found to drop to the commandline in either
mandriva or ubuntu or the most recent suse/novell.

I do coz I find editing text files quicker.

> And it sucks. I wish people like whoever it was that came up with that
> idiotic shaking and wobbling windows in Linux thing, that we just saw the
> video of, would dig into the important stuff - how to make wifi just plain
> work, and how to make file & printer sharing just plain work, basic things
> like that.

As I said in another post......I must just be lucky. I bought a wifi card
for my old laptop, shoved it in et voila the next thing I was filling in my
wifi hub key.

Ditto wrt printing.

My mother uses Mandriva w/o knowing or caring. In fact I set it (via
bagheera) to look for like a mac)

> Then we'd have a game. But, still, after all the years of "Linux
> is finally ready for desktop", the clue is still somewhat missing and we're
> still fiddling with bash and etc and all that crap, and MS knows it damn
> well and is laughing as they go by.
>

Get a copy of the most recent suse or Ubuntu.

try it.

come back.

Adam

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