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Re: off topic : WinLinux

• Posted by RedWordSmith <redwordsmith at NIC.DREAMHOST.COM> Nov 22, 1999
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Kat wrote:

> /me raises her hand too,, and raises a few other people's for them.
>
> Linux is *not* userfriendly, it requires too much twiddling, and there
> aren't enough apps to make the fight worthwhile to me.
>
> Kat

If you will permit me to give an opposing view.

I am a _new_ Linux user, and not a "serious" one at that.  Still, I would like
to provide an opposing view.  My personal Linux experience with Col 1.3 and
Red Hat 6.1 (box) has been more or less pleasant (besides my current problem,
where I have learned that a graphical login and playing around with X settings
without a boot disk is not very smart (oops... if anyone should happen to know
a way out of this current conundrum, please let me know.))  I ended up going
with Linux for several reasons.  One reason was curiosity, I'd like to see
what it can do.   Another is to check out and play with apps that are strictly
Linux: GIMP, INN, Apache... and so on.  I also believe that, as it matures,
Linux will become more mainstream.  6 months ago, I hadn't heard about it.  2
weeks ago, a copy of Red Hat 5.2 was in the bargain bin at Wal*Mart.  This
morning, Mandrake (Macmillan version - latest) was sitting right below Win98
on the W*M selves.  That's visible progress to me.  I don't want to be left
behind.  Yet another was price.  At $30 a pop, I can afford to get full
Linux-box sets up to 3 or 4 times a year.  Windows is too expensive.  My old
PB CDeluxe still has a DOS/Win3.11 combo on it.

There are obviously quite a few advocacy issues involved on both sides, so I
will not go and give a definite answer as to how good Linux is or is not.  I
will say however, to get a compatible modem *before* you get Linux.  I'm
trying to do it the other way around, but apparently only 3,000 Linux
compatible modems have been created since 1734 (BC), not including those new
PCI modems at Wal*Mart that have "Linux Compatible" right on the front. (Said
strictly tongue in cheek)

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