On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Elton Woo wrote: This is true for administrators but not home users. The consumer market will give you money if you give them what they want, else, they will give you nothing. I can tell you that they do not want to learn Linux... I do; I am an admin and an enthusiast.
On August 12, 2003 12:59 pm, Jesse Keating hosting@j2solutions.net wrote:
Giving a secretary root on a box is just insane. Corporate images are developed, deployed and only updated when there is a true business need. Allowing users to install software willy nilly just causes huge headaches, leads to virus infection and system instability. While there is some argument for having a nice gui frontend to installing software, it doesn't quite click in the real corporate environment.
True. And though I would still vote for a more user friendly interface, I'm sure that most linux users would NOT want linux to become "Microsoft Windows", where, if something goes wrong, the user hasn't a clue in hell what to do, and winds up reinstalling and rebooting his/her system a nauseam.
I strongly feel that is is WORTH the EFFORT to learn linux, and learn the underpinnings, so that one knows what to do in case of hardware failure, or the (more frequent) human failure...
Elton ;-)