[members at lugog] Introduction:

[Graham Lucas]

But there's no really easy entry into Linux, and it won't get a really wide
acceptance until there is.

I don't want to use Linux for Linux sake; I want to use an operating system
that isn't Microsoft. Or Apple for that matter, who I actually think are
worse.

And until it gets wider acceptance it's going to be difficult for people to
use the programs they need. I for instance need QuickBooks and Sage and it's
no use telling me there are opensource equivalents, my clients and there
accountants use the programs above and I have to use them too.

So is there a Linux I can just turn on and use in the same way that I can
use Windows or OSX?

Graham

Graham Lucas AICB (comp)
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On 25 November 2010 22:34, Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net> wrote:

> On 25 November 2010 22:24, Graham Lucas <graham.lucas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would amend Sean's analogy as a Weatherspoons and 5 breweries. Most
> people
> > who want a drink would go to Weatherspoons, whereas the ones who are
> > interested in how it's put together would go to the breweries.
>
> No, I will stick with the analogy of the pub... because it is the
> "overall experience".
>
> A Linux Distro is an association of many software programs, a desktop
> UI (ie. Gnome/KDE etc.) and a whole "user experience"... very much
> like a pub, with its range of beers, its choice to have a jukebox (or
> not), a pool table (or not), a skittle alley (or not), food (or not)
> etc.
>
> Going to a brewery would just be the same as always downloading single
> software tarballs from a sole supplier... not really the same at all.
>
> Sean
>
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