Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 06, 2004 12:33 PM
Go to the Microsoft bakery to buy bread. They have white, white split top and really big white for serving lots of people. Want wheat? Nope. Want rye? Nope. Don't even think about cinammon swirl!
Go to the Microsoft building company to buy a house. There is beige or beige-a-little-bigger or big beige almost-a-hotel. Want a bungalow? Nope. Want a spanish villa? Nope. Don't even think about a mediteranian-style mansion!
The only reason why choice in a computer OS is "hard" is because people are not used to it. No one questions choice when it comes to bread or a house or a car or shirts or televisions or cell phones or<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... See what I mean?
How did you find out you sometimes like rye bread? You tried it! How do you know you hate flat-roofed houses? You read about them, asked your friends about them and looked at them! How will you know if you like KDE or GNOME or Fedora or Debian better? You try it!
Don't know what to try and don't want to "waste" time installing something else? You can't go completely wrong with either KDE or GNOME and one of the more popular distros. Just try it. It only costs time.
If you were buying a camera you would spend time reading about them and handling them in the store, would you not? What if the store let you take the camera home and use it for a while. Then, just bring it back and try another if you want. Wouldn't you do that? Free Software lets you do just that! Is that so hard to wrap your brain around?
Microsoft doesn't let you try, only take what they give you and be happy because they tell you there is no other choice and they already figured it out for you. Bah!
Don't you dare eliminate my choice. If a distro wants to sell to "the people" they must earn their money educating the people that they have a choice.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 06, 2004 12:33 PMGo to the Microsoft building company to buy a house. There is beige or beige-a-little-bigger or big beige almost-a-hotel. Want a bungalow? Nope. Want a spanish villa? Nope. Don't even think about a mediteranian-style mansion!
The only reason why choice in a computer OS is "hard" is because people are not used to it. No one questions choice when it comes to bread or a house or a car or shirts or televisions or cell phones or<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... See what I mean?
How did you find out you sometimes like rye bread? You tried it! How do you know you hate flat-roofed houses? You read about them, asked your friends about them and looked at them! How will you know if you like KDE or GNOME or Fedora or Debian better? You try it!
Don't know what to try and don't want to "waste" time installing something else? You can't go completely wrong with either KDE or GNOME and one of the more popular distros. Just try it. It only costs time.
If you were buying a camera you would spend time reading about them and handling them in the store, would you not? What if the store let you take the camera home and use it for a while. Then, just bring it back and try another if you want. Wouldn't you do that? Free Software lets you do just that! Is that so hard to wrap your brain around?
Microsoft doesn't let you try, only take what they give you and be happy because they tell you there is no other choice and they already figured it out for you. Bah!
Don't you dare eliminate my choice. If a distro wants to sell to "the people" they must earn their money educating the people that they have a choice.
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