[Wolves] Linux for idiots

[Larry Tomkins]

Hi
I will agree the Linux is better then windows for many
things, and it's safer for surfing, but there are some
areas mainly available apps when it comes nowhere
near. I am thinking of Cooledit the audio editor,
there is nothing in linux that comes anywhere near.
Also I like musicmatch jukebox again nothing in linux
with the same functionality. Scanner support is
improving but again not in the same league, the same
goes for digital cameras too. But we stay here hoping
Larry T.
p.s.
Linspire is good those that don't wish to know the
internals of an op sys (or idiots as you call them)

--- mad-malc at tiscali.co.uk wrote:
> Hi all
> I have been conducting a little exoeriment to see if
> Linux is suitable for
> idiots (I know what you're thinking...).
> I tried to post the preliminary results but guess
> there is some filter which
> will not allow a .PDF attachment, I had to export
> the file to PDF to save
> it as my O.O.O kept causing a KDE Crash handler when
> trying to save (running
> KDE 3.4 on SUSE 9.2 not sure about O.O.O version).
> Any way the most important thing I have discovered
> is that some of the new
> Live Cd versions will quite happily boot and install
> on one machine but not
> the other, also the amount of functionality from
> straight install varies
> somewhat between Distro's. This leads me to still
> advocate linux as a better
> system than Windows as regards to what you get from
> as straight Distro still
> install, but also means that I can not extol the
> virtues of one Linux Distro
> over another.
> Indeed the past practise of giving anyone interested
> in linux a set of install
> discs for a particular Distro are being modified in
> my mind, in that it might
> be more productive to hand over 2 or more distro's,
> with the caveat that
> as I do not know their particular machines
> specification ,there will be different
> results from each install, but I'm still certain it
> will beat windows and
> they'll be really pleased with at least one of them.
> Looking at the question further WindowsXP gives
> almost no usability unless
> you have driver discs for basic motherboard
> components, so linux is in my
> opinion far more suitable for someone wanted a works
> from out the box solution,
> the problem to be faced is however down to hardware
> compatibility which is
> a bit of a lottery.
> 
> Mad Malc
> 
> 
> 
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