On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:06:16 +0000, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:33:27 -0800, Steve
wrote:

1. The average computer user doesn't know Linux from the polar ice cap.
And since they don't, they'd never even think about installing it. I
say "Linux", and they say "What's that?"

The only appropriate answer is "a mediocre product based on a collection
of messy amateur code."

If a computer user wants to be able to do the usual ordinary things
like browse the web, store their snapshots, send and receive emails,
watch YouTube videos, buy things on Amazon and Skype the
grandchildren, and a Linux installation enables them to do just that,
then in what way is it mediocre?

Rod.


I see you talk about Linux a lot...I've never seen you use it though.
You always seem to be posting using forte agent rather than pan..Why
aren't you using Linux? I know you have your reasons..yeah , yeah,yeah
We've all got reasons..there are lots of them.

I suspect you're not really interested in my reasons, so I won't bore
you with them, and they're not relevant to the point I was making
anyway, which is that for many people Linux would do everything they
need, if only they knew.

Rod.

Well I know and I'm using windows..I used redhat..then Fedora...back
before there were any live distros. I had ubuntu-mate installed
earlier this week. Seems like there is always a deal breaker though.
This time it was video to dvd convertion..I know there is devede that
produces jumpy videos unless you use deinterlacing..there is bombono
...jumpy too..dvd-styler that is slower than a glacier. It doesn't
matter what the reasons are. Running Linux is like taking a fat girl
to the prom..and she won't even do your homework right