From: Adam Flinton 

Tony Ingenoso wrote:
> Which brings me back to my original point - if a machine doesn't do what you
> want it to, how can you be happy?  Security without the functionality you
> want is not very useful.
>

But for the vast majority of users it does far more than they want it to.
My mother is very happy with moz (inc moz mail) & Open Office &
Sane for scanning etc. Her problems come from having 4 wrod processors so I
had to create her a cut down set of option by putting her most used icons
on the desktop & taskbar.

> Its pretty clear you are blind to some of the most glaring Linux
> deficiencies when it is applied to some rather ordinary task people use
> Windows machines every day for.  What's curious is the kernel developers
> freely admit these quasi real time issue problems while you won't
>

Again nope. Every day tasks such as writing letters, spreadsheets, mail,
web,music, videos etc. are all fully catered for.

adam


>
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:42982a72$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>Yeah butr the comparative lack of trojans & viruses makes for some happy
>>users.
>
>

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