Roy S wrote:
|> The Linux Desktop Myth
[...]
Linux has been "ready for the desktop" for at least 5 years now. Now I
don't like point/click interfaces, so it was ready for me in 1994, but
watching a point/click person doing "normal desktop stuff" on (either
the first or second version of) KDE circa 2000 was a real revelation.
Networking and email and short compositions were her stuff, and I was
amazed at her speed with it. Merely the fact that you could single
click made it much faster than (the mythical) fully functional MS Windows.
And of course there was no "wait wait wait" even while using Netscape
for email when you didn't have a system riddled with unnecessary
overhead or viruses.
That was one of the earlier Red Hat versions, a very long time ago now
in computing terms. Linux was superior to Solaris for that sort of
stuff even then, and it isn't susceptible to the sort of malware that
more or less destroyed my father's home computing experience (he doesn't
do more than reading news with it anymore... too much trouble with
anything else). What? Buy new hardware? He can't be bothered and
shouldn't have to be.
--
ciao,
Bruce
drift wave turbulence: http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/
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