The big thing about the use of Windows and associated os sw is the ability to move from work to home and on the road without a lot of shuffling. I can take a laptop to work with my Win and Office and move things back and forth from the work station to the laptop and never miss a beat. I can move things from my Linux to the M$ side of the laptop and back. If the home is left to Bill, then there is no hope for Linux. But, again the key is ease of use and all. You folks have missed the fact that RH can be had on several of the other big PC companies - Dell, HP, Sun. HP was the first with the package for the PC's and servers. The hold up is still the ability to move between systems and have all the bells and whistles associated with the packages you are going to use the most. This does not mean people use all or even a good portion of those attributes. I can't tell you how many desks or people I have come to help that have set up and get comfortable with something and work out a way to do something that isn't even the b&w which could make it easier. They say 'WOW' or 'I'll be' when you show them the fixture and it works. Or they continue to do it with their workaround because it's comfortable. We are creatures of habit and will, like water, seek the easiest path to nirvana or the ocean. Keep looking up, Tim Sinks ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Kaufman" <jmk at kaufman.eden-prairie.mn.us> To: <tanner at real-time.com>; "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 7:47 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Redhat says to use Windows? > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:34:53AM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote: > > Why do people think the home user is the holy grail of where linux should be > > or wants to go? > > > > -- > > Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 > > http://www.mn-linux.org, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 > > Key fingerprint = AB15 0BDF BCDE 4369 5B42 1973 7CF1 A709 2CC1 B288 > > > > Linus thinks the desktop is where it's at. Servers are easy and Linux already > shines in that arena. Desktops are difficult to do right (so many variables in > hardware and software). > > If Linux focuses on the office desktop segment, then there would be a natural > tendency for those users to also want Linux at home. There might then be a > ripple effect in which spouses and children of those users start using Linux. > Further, w/o the home user (ie, lots and lots and lots of users), hardware > manufacturers have less incentive to provide support. > > Just seems to me that the more home users, then issues like "Why doesn't this > web page show the movie I expected?" and "Why doesn't this PC play music?" will > become non-issues because everthing will work as exepcted. > > -- > Jim Kaufman mailto:jmk at linuxforbusiness.net > Linux Evangelist cell: 612-481-9778 > public key 0x6D802619 fax: 952-937-9832 > http://www.linuxforbusiness.net > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list