![]() However, after installing and running Linux and noticing hardware problems (if any) and the lack of “just working” for each and every perhipheral and whatever else he connects to his PC, he’d probably tell me to just “make it work” again and then take my Linux and “go piss up a rope” (I know my neighbor well). If I told my neighbor I could give him a CD with the best operating system around for x86 hardware, at zero-cost, he’d no doubt be excited! ![]() He can open a browser, go to any site he likes, and it “just works”. ![]() He bought a PC with Windows 2000 pre-installed.īut, he can plug in a printer and it “just works”. His “computer is slow”, and it crashes sometimes. My neighbor hates his computer because he keeps getting infected w/ the latest viruses, worms, spyware, etc. I’m happy to manually compile code, edit configuration files, re-compile my kernel, etc., however, I’m a programmer, this stuff is a thrill to me, I’m happy as a clam to have a free OS as superb as Linux to offer me nearly infinite possibilities to geek-around with my system. Most folks aren’t techies, they want to sit down and use their PC, they couldn’t care less about what is installed on their computers as long as it “just works”. ![]() I think this is easily the general perspective of first time Linux users, overall.
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