[lug] Linux for Dad

[Steve A Hart]

I agree with the Mac idea but in my case, Dad is an old school IBM 
engineer and......

1.  He loves his DOS prompt / OS/2
2.  Is completely biased against Mac and would laugh in my face if I 
even suggested it

I've slowly been able to convince him to try Linux so I'll give Ubuntu 
or foresight a try.....



David Morris wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Nate Duehr
> <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
>   
>> George Sexton wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>> Buy dad a Mac?  :-)
>>>>
>>>> Nate
>>>>         
>>> You're so brave. That was going to be my suggestion but I
>>> was too
>>> cowardly...
>>>       
>> LOL... just mark me "-1 Troll" I guess... that's what all
>> the other sane
>> comments on Slashdot get.
>>
>> Say ANYTHING bad about open-source projects/code you'll
>> get blasted there.
>>  Same with Digg.
>>     
>
> (nod) I can sympathize.  I stopped posting on slashdot a
> *long* time ago because I posted common sense...which
> doesn't always equate to open source.
>
> At the risk of joining you in troll-hood, I'll join in with
> my support of using a Mac:
>
> I think MacOSX is a *brilliant* operating system for the
> average user. It has most of the benefits of both M$ Windows
> and Linux, and very few of the drawbacks of either.  For
> those who turn it down because they "don't like Macs!", I
> just point out that as of MacOSX, it based on a UNIX core
> (BSD), except unlike Linux it has a very well designed user
> interface.
>
> Which isn't to say I don't like the Linux window
> managers....there are many good ones out there, and even the
> KDE/Gnome are decent in comparison to Windows (though I
> consider them just about the worst option available, for
> me).  However, none are even remotely close to as polished
> and easy to use as MacOSX for the average *computer
> illiterate* user who wants only basic
> web/email/document/music/etc. functionality which "just
> works".
>
> --David
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Steve Hart
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