On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 10:51, Craig White wrote:

> I like fedora and have had few problems with it and love the newer
> mozilla/evolution/gnome/openoffice etc.
> 
> Older hardware is going to be much easier to work with than newer
> hardware since the plug & play detection, modules, etc. are likely to
> recognize and fully mature so this doesn't necessarily apply.

this seems to be disto dependent the box came with Lindows installed but
lindows didn't recognize her monitor. Knoppix also had an issue with the
older hardware. RH9 just worked (TM)

> 
> Linux being ready for the desktop - maybe - problems exist - especially
> because you shouldn't be running as root. Makes mounting floppies,
> ejecting cd's, setting up and dialing a modem, etc. harder. If you took
> the same aproach and ran as an unprivileged user in Windows or in
> Macintosh OSX, you would suffer similarly but those systems don't
> typically work that way.

TRUE

> 
> You can't just buy any hardware and expect it to work without fuss on
> Linux whereas most of the hardware will be supported by Windows XP.
> Downloading / purchasing and then installing Linux software is much more
> difficult for unskilled users on Linux. Linux becomes far more usable as
> a desktop when your skill level goes up and as the subject says...YMMV
> 

I really don't see how it can get any easier than yum. If  you *really*
don't like the command line there is a GUI that runs on top of apt-get.
I've only used it long enough to show my gf how it works but she gets
stuff installed on her system all the time now without having to call me
so I assume its easy as well. 
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