On 4/20/07, Odhiambo WASHINGTON <wash@wananchi.com> wrote:
* On 20/04/07 07:29 -0700, Alex Gakuru wrote:
| Don't have any data though I can say nearly all surfers at my cafe
| use Linux but they have no clue they were using the Linux ("For Human
| Beings") installed. Firefox did a good thing to develop identical
| versions for Ubuntu Desktop and Windows.
"Linux for Human beings" is great, I was using it Last week at IST for
my presentation on installing freebsd,but they did not know the
difference,till I was done and had to shut down.
If you have to conquer,give guys what they already have but in a
different way/version/OS, they are used to GUI so why not Linux but GUI?
The link below may not be the exact picture,bearing in mind that there
non-registered users...but its gives a picture,of what the worl thinks
of Kenya and Linux.
http://counter.li.org/reports/place.php?place=KE
ACK.
| Education told us here it's policy all public schools PCs must
| be dual boot, thus one would expect that they all should/shall have
| one *nix flavour or another which will mean big numbers.
I did not understand the need for dual-boot though. What is it supposed
to achieve for a non-techie?
I would like to take the dual boot as a good sign,the linux will have
to be taught and make use of that partition. Non-techie,will only
become a techie,once they realise what they've got!
| I chose Ubuntu because of its user-friendliness. Perhaps others chip in?
Perhaps we need a debate on this. I use FreeBSD because I believe I am
99% competent in running it, either as a server or desktop PC. I know
how to make my way around almost over _any_ problem with it. I do
know for a fact that only a very small percentage of those who say
"I know Linux" can be able to fix it if it gets broken.
Agreed!!
Mostly, the
"I know" is based on the GUI being available during install and normal
use. When a problem comes up, it is the same thing as Windows - when
the GUI is not there, they are at a loss!
My thinking is that people should use an OS based on their competence
with it, user-friendliness notwithstanding.
The OS is just the road. The tools are the applications that you can run
on it. However one should be able to choose a road they are comfortable
with.
Does this apply on the availability and cost? People tend to turn
to this road (linux/OSS) because of this reason not really
comfortability...and if you dont want to fall under the category of
"pirators" and be free with your softwares,not looking over your
shoulder,everytime a shadow passes behind!
I think that one of the major things that we do lack is,We don't
have/or not ready to finance technical skills for the development,
support and training for Linux! that is why guys are hesitant.
companies would rather pay,for what they think they know, than venture
on what they just hear! and the norm is who(company) is using it,of my
calibre(company)?
To me user-friendly means how fast I can recover from a problem either
with the OS or the installed applications, GUI or no GUI. Perhaps this
applies only to me?
cheers
- wash
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