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Warp wrote:
>> The best part is when you say "make configure", and it says
>> "Unrecognised arch 'i586/SuSE 10.3'". And you're like "WTF? Now what do
>> I do??"
>
> Yes, it's clearly a problem with *linux* when some software you are
> trying to install is broken.
Right. And the fact that the design of Unix is overly complex and
incorporates several decades of backwards compatibility is unrelated? ;-)
I do take your point - broken software exists on *all* platforms.
However, I do feel that Unix really doesn't help matters by being so
wildly complicated...
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Warp escribió:
> Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmail isthebestcom> wrote:
>> IE, on the other hand, has great performance and no standards
>> compliance, and since it hasn't been updated much for years... it was
>> made for older machines :P
>
> Much of IE's "performance" is deceiving.
Well, I can't tell for sure. Been a long while since I used it :)
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> On Linux she wouldn't need to install any software on CD whatsoever.
> Digital
> cameras are just USB devices and USB is an industry-strength standard. It
> works on Linux out-of-the-box. And it comes with plenty of image
> visualizers
> to see the content.
So when she plugs in the camera (without installing any drivers or special
software), a box will pop up asking her if she wants to view a slide show,
open the folder or print some of the photos?
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>> It requires you to connect to the
>> Internet, manually download a tar.gzip file, figure out how to unpack
>> it, do the whole configure/make/install trip,
>
> That's the *basic* installation method on Linux. If you don't even know
> how to unpack a .tar.gz... you don't know Linux.
And you guys are trying to convince me my mum could use Linux .... ha!
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Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Mac OS X is an alternative - if you have several thousand pounds laying
>> spare...
>
> How much did your Windows cost you, *including* the PC it's running in?
time, IIRC.
quite a lot more...
> Besides, the "several thousand pounds" is BS. A fully-working Mac mini
> (with MacOS X) is $599, which is about 307 British pounds.
least twice the figure.
> "Yeah, but it's a slow machine which you can't do anything with."
> Maybe, if you consider an Intel Core 2 Duo with 1GB memory "slow".
I don't particularly. In fact I'm actually moderately tempted with a Mac
Mini.
OTOH, I have many hundreds of pounds worth of software that won't work
on it. Which is fine I guess - I just keep *that* software on my PC
instead. But then... what exactly am I going to use this shiny new Mac
for? I guess there's a way to run POV-Ray on it, and it has a nice big
dual-core CPU in there, so that looks good. But... I don't know... Do I
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>>> It requires you to connect to the
>>> Internet, manually download a tar.gzip file, figure out how to unpack
>>> it, do the whole configure/make/install trip,
>>
>> That's the *basic* installation method on Linux. If you don't even
>> know how to unpack a .tar.gz... you don't know Linux.
>
> And you guys are trying to convince me my mum could use Linux .... ha!
>
Will your mom convert her machine into a print server?
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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:47b1efb6@news.povray.org...
> They can, however, pay the hardware guys to only
> supply new computers with M$ Windows preinstalled
Which clearly explains why the haedware companies (like say, Dell, HP, IBM)
would never sell a computer pre-installed with Linux.
Oh, wait....
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scott wrote:
>>> It requires you to connect to the
>>> Internet, manually download a tar.gzip file, figure out how to unpack
>>> it, do the whole configure/make/install trip,
>>
>> That's the *basic* installation method on Linux. If you don't even
>> know how to unpack a .tar.gz... you don't know Linux.
>
> And you guys are trying to convince me my mum could use Linux .... ha!
I'm afraid I have to agree here...
[Well, no, I'd say that once everything you want is configured, Linux is
actually quite easy to use. But every time you want to plug something
new in... hmm.]
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scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> And you guys are trying to convince me my mum could use Linux .... ha!
I wouldn't not recommend Linux for your mother. I would recommend you
buy her a Mac mini.
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scott wrote:
>> If that were the case, visiting Windows Update a few times presumably
>> wouldn't have fixed it...
>
> Drivers.
Yeah. Every train should have one.
Oh, wait, what are we talking about here? ;-)
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