[ShadowAce]

Well, it sure sounds like making fun of grandma's lack of computer expertise was your point.

I'm sorry if it came across that way. There are times when I cannot seem to express myself on this medium the way I would like. The original point was that Linux is harder to use than Windows because "grandma" can't install it. My point was that Windows is just as difficult, if not more so, than Linux to install.

I respect you more than the Linux jihadists, Shadow, but you sound just like them sometimes. Your post #94 here is an example.

Please see above. I was just trying to point out that the issue he brought up (installing Linux by grandma) is a straw man that doesn't mean much, as Windows suffers from the same difficulty.

"Grandma" should not have to install the OS. That's like assembling a bike for a child. The child doesn't care how it's put together, he just wants to go out and use it. Grandma is much the same way--she doesn't care what's running, she just wants to use her computer.

Note: I am NOT saying "grandma" is a child. Just using an analogy here.

[clyde asbury]

I'm sorry if it came across that way. .. My point was that Windows is just as difficult, if not more so, than Linux to install.

You're right, of course. I haven't installed Windows since the early 1990s.

You post some great articles, and I always respect your comments. I don't know much about Linux, but most of it I've learned on FR, and most of that on threads you and a couple of others have posted.

Other Linux users do seem to be on a jihad against anything Microsoft. If you are a Windows user and you've never tried Linux and never even set up an /etc/lilo.conf file, then you're an idiot.

I like using Linux and believe its use would spread faster and to a greater extent if the Linux jihadists would either learn to be nicer, or simply shut up.


And that's why I think OS threads are boring. Thanks for listening.