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#! rnews 2711 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.spb.su!news.wplus.spb.ru!not-for-mail From: "Igor N Kovalenko" <infoh@mail.wplus.net> Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 5 Apr 1997 11:31:18 GMT Organization: InfoMarket Ltd. Message-ID: <01bc41b4$f59913e0$46b108c2@owl.wplus.net> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-70.wplus.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Lines: 41 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19786 comp.os.linux.misc:168032 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38468 Well, Windoze is system designed for dummies, so dummies like it. The fact that it dominates just clearly indicates well known idea that dummies are dominant part of population. Did you seen all these ".... for dummies" books? IMHO, quite arrogant title, but guys who bought it and made it so popular, confirmed that they are dummies just don't noticing this :-( Unfortunately, genius guys who write all these nice Unixes, refused to pay attention to user interface at the right time. IMHO, this was quite arrogant as well. As result, now we have the world, where applications, required for both dummies and professionals, often available only for system, designed for dummies :-( Who trying to fight with it? Not too much guys ... May be these brave Linux guys who invented "Linux'95" logo will change this :-))) Igor Jason Ish <jbi130@mail.usask.ca> wrote in article <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95>... > > And that is the thing I most like about free un!x. > > I control how the program is installed. I change some things about > > it to adapt it to my setup. MS want you to do the reverse. I find > > that quite arrogant. > > Take a minute here and think about the 'average computer user.' MS has > been great at getting ordinary people to use a computer, even tho if it is > for future marketing. Does the average user really care where their > programs are installed. I do a lot of service at people's homes and they > don't even know Windows 95 is an OS. They just take it for granted that it > runs their programs. Never have I seen a Unix system that can be taken for > granted - ie, setting up modems and stuff has to be done very explicitly. > Maybe there are some Unix's out there that can be taken for granted but I'm > only a 2nd year CS student and haven't seen one yet. > > Jason >