Posted by: fmcgowan
on September 04, 2003 01:38 AM
1. Are you the author of the article at the top of this thread? If so, you should probably post under the same name rather than "Anonymous Reader" so the rest of us can be aware of that fact. If not, what gives you the privilege of determining what is "off topic?" The guy's post seems on topic to me; should we have a vote to decide? 2. My Dad, in his early 80s, has had computers since the mid-1970s. Though he had to assemble the first ones and install the OS, he hasn't done that since he got his Atari 1040 when it was a ground-breaking new product. Very few people that I know install operating systems or customize them past the odd desktop shortcut. They just _use_ them as whatever category of product you care to call them. 3. If you work with PCs, you've almost certainly gotten _numerous_ calls from Windows users with this problem or that crisis, so the charge that the poster, not his mom, set up the PC also applies to a large number of Windows users. Is Windows "ready for the destop?" By your standards, probably not; those same users would probably disagree. 4. Why test "granny downloading or buying a stock product off the shelf" and using it? Does the average Windows user download or buy Windows as a "stock item?" No; the vast majority of PCs taking up landfill space still have their original vendor installed OS on them. Why must Linux "win" the installation event when the other competitor doesn't show up for the contest?
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Posted by: fmcgowan on September 04, 2003 01:38 AM2. My Dad, in his early 80s, has had computers since the mid-1970s. Though he had to assemble the first ones and install the OS, he hasn't done that since he got his Atari 1040 when it was a ground-breaking new product. Very few people that I know install operating systems or customize them past the odd desktop shortcut. They just _use_ them as whatever category of product you care to call them.
3. If you work with PCs, you've almost certainly gotten _numerous_ calls from Windows users with this problem or that crisis, so the charge that the poster, not his mom, set up the PC also applies to a large number of Windows users. Is Windows "ready for the destop?" By your standards, probably not; those same users would probably disagree.
4. Why test "granny downloading or buying a stock product off the shelf" and using it? Does the average Windows user download or buy Windows as a "stock item?" No; the vast majority of PCs taking up landfill space still have their original vendor installed OS on them. Why must Linux "win" the installation event when the other competitor doesn't show up for the contest?
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