[Wolves] Re: Peter's attack on my fedora gripes as a distribution.....

[Peter Cannon]

On Tuesday 05 July 2005 14:52, roundyz wrote:

> No they don't you are right but installing them is easier for a fresh
> COMPUTER USER to do on windows than on linux.

Na, not if your new to computers coz ya wouldn't know any different you'd 
think thats the way its done.

> Where would you ask if you was a fresh COMPUTER USER?

Um, Mr Google?

> 13year olds. yerh I'm sure. I can name over five people in my family who
> wouldn't be able to do it.One can't even hold the mouse and click at the
> same time. 13 years old, yerh, Computers are very much a part of thier
> generation. ask someone over 40, or 50.only computers they had growing up
> till the 80's was a watch.No cut and paste on that.

One of my telesales staff is 61 and she can do it, never used a computer until 
she came here 2 years ago :P

> note the MANUALLY, not clicking on the jigsaw part.(the jigsaw install has
> never worked for me either, ever)

I'll come clean it only worked for me after FC2

> > > > for someone who comes from an M$ environment I imagine would
> > > > be quite a task. My mother couldn't do it. to be honest it would take
> > > > her 2 weeks with a step by step walkthrough...
> > > > oh and no compiling CUPS support for kde print.

Course your mum could do it, mums are great they can leap tall buildings at a 
single bound, stop locomotives and make you feel like you're still 7 years 
old.

> I never did, but red hat are know to do this as they favour gnome, its a
> common problem, honest.

OK you got me, up until FC3 I used KDE on Fedora but since then I've always 
used Gnome but I'm sure I had the printers working under KDE in fact I was 
moaning the other week that there was a scan feature that automatically found 
printers but was now missing, I bet that was under KDE.

> These arnt phantom issues they are real. They are just gripes with fedora
> distros. We all got gripes.

Oh alright maybe not phantom in your own experiences but God loves a Fedora 
user ;-)

> Dude my orinal post was about issues with fedora, about how as its
> distributed ain't so friendly. I damn sure hope this wasn't an attack on
> me....I wouldn't be too pleased. There also ain't no record to be set
> straight as all my points are valid and true.

You leave my lovely Fedora alone you horrid man ;-)

> BTW.....I aint a new user. I been using red hat since 5.2 (i still have the
> book that came with it!!).

Oops, I'll get me coat.

-- 
Regards
Peter Cannon
Fedora Core 4 & Suse 9.3

"There is every excuse for not knowing,
There is no excuse for not asking!"
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