Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 03, 2003 06:21 PM
I am sorry, but what you are describing is an APPLIANCE. **You** (and not her) have manually modified a default linux distro and have transformed it into an appliance, with a clean desktop and a few buttons about common actions.
This is what Internet Appliances were made to be too. But that doesn't make your grandmother an operating system user per se, it just makes her an appliance user, that someone modified for her. The REAL test would have been to give her the DEFAULT RedHat/Madnrake/Suse/Debian/whatever distro and THEN tell us how well she will manage it to do her thing.
Sorry, but your example, while cute, does not hold up here.
It is like saying QNX is easy to use, because my DVD player runs on QNX. Using an appliance with limited choices does not make me a "QNX user" per se.
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Re:My mom (in her 70s) uses Linux - not quite
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 03, 2003 06:21 PMThis is what Internet Appliances were made to be too. But that doesn't make your grandmother an operating system user per se, it just makes her an appliance user, that someone modified for her. The REAL test would have been to give her the DEFAULT RedHat/Madnrake/Suse/Debian/whatever distro and THEN tell us how well she will manage it to do her thing.
Sorry, but your example, while cute, does not hold up here.
It is like saying QNX is easy to use, because my DVD player runs on QNX. Using an appliance with limited choices does not make me a "QNX user" per se.
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