On 04-Apr-2004 Ted Harding wrote:
On 03-Apr-04 Graham Trott wrote:
A cautionary tale for anyone producing end-user software. Also an amusing and informative read.
To come back to the main point of the above URL. This article is good, and very accurately aimed.
I completely agree with Ted Harding and the writer's point of view.
Linux has a very long way to go before it can be used by the masses. A friend of mine, not knowledgeable about computers, brought his computer to me and I installed Mandrake 9.1 on it for him. After he got it back home we discovered that the USB ports were not working. Mandrake finds the root hub but will not detect any attached devices. Until we can get together again, he lives some 50 miles away, he has no way of knowing what might be wrong or how to fix it.
I've been using Linux for some years now and I still have trouble with it sometimes and, yes, it can become very very very frustrating.
Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain