Desktop Linux (fwd)

[Michael Costolo]

--- Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:
> Mike is obviously going to stand here and say that the slightest
> difference means the user is learning "a new application". (And he's
> accusing Derek of being pedantic. :-) )

I would argue you've oversimplified things *just* a bit.  And perhaps putting words
into my mouth...

> Mike is never going to accept that position, at least not during this
> discussion.  I don't know if this is because of reasons of face or if
> he's just having fun with us.

Or because you're wrong.  Hey, it is a valid option. :)

> I think it got pulled quite far afield from Maddog's original query. and
> that's too bad.  He was looking at something pretty important. (as usual)

This has indeed strayed just a bit.  My original point was that I believe that the
alternate avenues of support he mentioned are in place, at least from an
infrastructure point of view.  Perhaps just not very well known/advertised.  And I
was genuinely curious what specific applications people *needed* to be ported in
order to non-techno families comfortable with running Linux at home.  It would seem
from the responses that games are a far bigger concern that I would have ever
guessed, as well as the more common commercial software packages (Quicken, Adobe
products, etc.) really are more of a stumbling block than I had previously
understood.  
 
> I can't blame Mike too much.  I've defended some ludicrous
> position when I didn't even know how I got there.

Thanks.  I guess.  I'm sure we probably agree on more that it would seem once we get
past the semantics.

-Mike-

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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it"
-George Bernard Shaw

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