RH recommends using Windows?

[Andy Green]

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On Tuesday 04 November 2003 18:38, Noah Silva [Mailing list] wrote:

> This isn't true.  My windows using friends pick up gnome pretty quickly.
> My girlfriend uses linux.., and people that don't know windows well have
> an even easier time.  I mean a web browser is a web browser, you click on
> a movie, it plays... gaim is self explanatory.  You click on a .doc file,
> it opens.  most things that someone else would want to do on my computer,
> they can figure out in about 10 seconds.

Yep, my wife and kids are all on KDE here, faced with Mozilla and OO they 
sorted themselves out.  The kids found all the control panel customization 
and sorted it themselves.  The caveat is that you need a geek behind the 
curtain at the moment to get the thing to the stage of double-clicking on 
movies make them play in a good way, printers get talked to, 
/etc/X11/XF86Config is looking good to play a game, etc.  The need for geek 
intervention is shrivelling but its not at or near zero yet.  I think 
everyone can agree with this.... its not at zero for Windows either, but its 
lower right now.

Still, that guy, and maybe Redhat as a whole needs to go on a communication 
course... look at all the people turning up worried here, people on various 
other mls I subscribe to are concerned and doubtful about this heyar RH9 -> 
Fedora thing.  If the message is that there's nothing to worry about, you 
won't have to reinstall every 3 months, which it seems to be, then the 
message isn't getting out in a great way to people who have mindshare and 
installshare with RH.  Maybe after the first release and the security updates 
start flying things will clam down, but today to many people Fedora is a 
frightening convulsion in RHland.

- -Andy
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