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Re: Knoppix Operating System :-)

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Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> wrote:

>I don't think the general public has the newest best computers at home. 
>Their computers are like their cars. In the streets, most cars are not 
>new. And only once in a while you notice a Ferrari among them. Much more 
>often than seeing Ferraris, you see cars 15 or even 20 years old. I 
>think their computers at home are also like that.


This is why Linux is poised to gain market share on the desktop,
Microsoft is requiring a frantic pace of hardware upgrades.


>And I began this thread because I think Windows is kind of a 
>cantankerous OS for the general public.


Definitely.


>Example. Last weekend, I installed Windows from scratch on an empty HDD 
>in one of my computers to test a graphics card in Windows. I swear, by 
>the time it was relatively ready for me, I had grown at least an extra 
>1/8th of an inch of beard on my face, and it'd gone way past my bed 
>time. Next morning, it still wouldn't let me comfortably use it under 
>bombardments of a hundred different non-essential features that it 
>wanted to impose on me. It's the craziest computer experience that a 
>member of general public has to go through at home. So Windows is not 
>for the general public.
>
>Right now, I am testing Knoppix to see if that suffices. And if it does, 
>then under what conditions and resources.


Phones seem to have supplanted the PC as the device of choice.

-- 
Joel Crump

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