On 12/12/05, Erick Stohr <evisuale007 at yahoo.com> wrote: > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > You know that your statement of "Linux will never become a desktop of the > massess" is very relative, take a look around the world, not just the U.S. > where Microsoft has the majority of small businesses. Read some sites like > Slashdot and see where Linux is geting implemented in 3rd World countries as > well as a large part of Europe. The U.S., although we may think the world > revolves around us, it does not. And note, I said small businesses, the > majority of large companies, for example SuperValu, run Unix flavored OS's. > You obviously come from a Windows world for the simple fact that you think > installing a driver on Linux is like using a shoe horn, which ironic to your > statement a shoe horn actually is very helpful, which was the intended > purpose of a shoe horn, so you don't excatly make a good analogy. I guess I You missed the analogy. > will recommend you just follow the Wizards and click away and let companies > like Microsoft just show you how simple things should/can be. I guess if > the install process on Linux for certain hardware components "sucks" so bad, > think about the compromise of insecurity of an OS vs. security and a bit of > "shoe horning" the driver in. > > I forgot. Linux is perfect:) Actually every OS has good and bad points. I prefer Linux or UNIX servers, just not crazy about it as a desktop. Even ESR thinks printing on Linux rocks for average users.