[Coco] Re: Where's everybody goin'?

[Theodore Evans (Alex)]

On Mar 19, 2004, at 6:10 PM, James Ross wrote:

> David wrote:
>
>> I don't think [Linux is] suited for the
>> secretary in an office.
>
> Actually, I can see where Linux might make sense in some offices.  A
> Linux box that is locked down completely except for a main menu that
> allows the worker to run a few programs and that is it, nothing else
> -- low maintenance, low cost.  This would apply especially for
> repetitious data entry type work.

It is a bit of a stretch thinking of office environments where Linux 
wouldn't make sense.  In most office environments workers interface 
with the computer using the computer using the GUI which is 
sufficiently similar under nearly all platforms with a GUI as to merely 
be a matter of what one prefers and is used to.

> I agree. I tried a few games on Linux. Loki games (I think, something
> like that). And I have to say, that in more cases than not they did
> not run correctly if at all.

This is rather hard to swallow.

> Absolutely agreed.  I believe I spent more time setting things up
> those 6 weeks I tried using only Linux than actually using it.

Unless you 1) didn't use it much at all, 2) spent time setting things 
up because you could rather than because you had to, or 3) were using a 
distribution targeted to the more extreme technical users this is also 
hard to swallow.  It generally takes me less time to install and 
configure Linux on a machine than it does for me to install and 
configure Windows on the same machine.

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