>Joe should have what he is getting today: Simplicity and freedom.
Even if your name were Joe, there would be no hope for a user that
doesn't even fall on the one to ten user class list.
Your problems go far deeper than your capacity to grasp desktop GUI
paradigms.
Also, nothing you posted has anything to do with security to begin
with.
I am quite sure, however, that you are a fine addition to the Arizona
population. NOT!
> I never have had any virus for 10 yrs now under Windows. So you are a whole bunch of coward stupid jerks.
More likely due to the fact that your hands were predominately attached
to your crotch, and not your network browser.
Do us all a favor and go back to physical masturbation, and discontinue
abusing the rest of the world with your pathetic mental masturbation.
You are obviously uneducated, and apparently uneducable as well.
In other words, dumbass... you are hard wired stupid.
I tested how hard it is to find a calculator in a KDE desktop.
Click where windows has it's start menu.
type in calc in the search field
Got Xcalc, Kcalc, Gcalc th shoose from.
But me as an old nerd only use bc from the command line :-)
Everything you list as examples works right out of the box with a linux eeepc
except watch DVD, I must put them in another linux box and rip them first, but
that is not so complicated.
If you see that Joe, please ask him to stop sending me spam for all those poker
sites located in china.
/BB
> I am writing this on a Linux box. Running RedHat-something.
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
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> Why Linux has failed, and why Linux will fail again? Warning:
> Incoherent rant ahead. Triggered after spending so long looking for a
> simple calculator in KDE that I forgot the numbers I was supposed to
> do calculations on.
KCalc. The end.
> The "Simple" Factor While Linux-whiners may argue all that we want
> that Windows is not about freedom, I'll state the opposite: Windows
> is all about freedom. Windows is freedom from complicated choices,
> it's freedom from having to learn something new, something not really
> relevant to the task you want to do.
Yet, the prechosen settings are crap and Redmond knows it.
> I found four different web browsers, Konqueror, Galeon, Mozilla and
> Opera. Three of them were preinstalled here. Joe doesn't understand
> why he needs four different programs to surf the web.
Because every single one is better than IE.
> So, if you are going to get Joe to switch, what do you need?
>
> First of all, you need an ultra-simple installation. Not to co-exist
> with Windows, but to migrate his Windows installation. Bootloaders
> with names such as "lilo: " and "grub" are just scary. And when I say
> migrate, that includes mail, bookmarks and documents.
That would be nice, but maybe a user manual on how to back up one's data
would be more efficient. Especially since they're venturing into new
land, a backup would be a good idea in the first place.
> If Joe for whatever reason should want to revert to Windows and
> uninstall Linux, he should have the opportunity to do so, without any
> hassle. Just a confirmation dialog or two, a root password, and
> "Ok!".
Tell that to Windows, using closed source. Who's playing hard to get?
Luca
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