On Sunday 18 June 2006 10:28, Rony wrote:
I don't see any difference in user simplicity in Windows or Linux. Its all about getting famaliar with a system. If a child were to see only linux pcs around it, it would find them as simple as a child who grows up on windows.
This argument isn't true at all. What if the child wants to change the file associations? What if the child wants to draw a simple drawing? ( Paint brush kicks Kpaints a$$ ). What if the child wants to install a flash plugin? Firefox has issues installing plugins on my FC5 system. The fact is and will remain that Linux Desktop OE have a long way yet to catch up with XPs UI. Until the outlook of the Linux community changes and accepts the short comings of the UIs GNOME and KDE both, we wont see real progress.
MS is popular because of its marketing techniques and tie-ups with hardware manufacturers for drivers. Piracy too is responsible for customers demanding softwares they would never use if they had to pay for it.
Agreed.