From: "Gary Britt" 


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:44c840fd{at}w3.nls.net...
 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. 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



Yep, that's what I was trying to say, but you have said it much better than
I.  I like the cool virtual desktop cube, but getting other things to just
plain work as you say FIRST is more important.  Linux has to be BETTER than
Windows at these things and more since it has to be installed by a user and
doesn't come preinstalled like Windows.

George isn't afraid of driver downloads and kernel recompile's, but these
are things I don't want to take time to learn.  I'm tired of relearning
Windows from version to version and that feeling transfers to learning
command line incantations, etc  for Linux.  If the kernel needs to be
recompiled then that should happen seamlessly as part of the application
install without me having to even know its being done.

Gary

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