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CET · 02-20-2005, 10:13 PM

I'm learning on Red Hat 9 and Fedora. I hear that there's going to be a push on SUSE, and it's supposed to be fairly user friendly. We'll see.

The problem with linux right now is that it's not too user friendly. You have to have a good understanding of it just to be able to install a lot of applications. The terminal codes that you have to enter are pretty cryptic. Most people just look at the whole thing, get confused and frustrated and go back to Windows or Mac. Windows and Mac have the market they do because there isn't too much of a learning curve; just point and click. I think that if Linux can get to a reasonable level of usability with just "point and click" technology, they're really going to have a huge break through.

As it is, a lot of businesses are switching to Linux because of it's cost, reliability, and that the same hardware you would use with Windows will take you a lot farther on Linux. My laptop only has an 850Mhz processor and 128mB RAM, yet it runs just as well has my desktop with Windows, which uses a 2.2Ghz process or and 256mB RAM. So that makes hardware almost half the price due to more efficient use of resources (Windows is SUCH a resource pig).

02-20-2005, 10:13 PM
CET Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,754	I'm learning on Red Hat 9 and Fedora. I hear that there's going to be a push on SUSE, and it's supposed to be fairly user friendly. We'll see. The problem with linux right now is that it's not too user friendly. You have to have a good understanding of it just to be able to install a lot of applications. The terminal codes that you have to enter are pretty cryptic. Most people just look at the whole thing, get confused and frustrated and go back to Windows or Mac. Windows and Mac have the market they do because there isn't too much of a learning curve; just point and click. I think that if Linux can get to a reasonable level of usability with just "point and click" technology, they're really going to have a huge break through. As it is, a lot of businesses are switching to Linux because of it's cost, reliability, and that the same hardware you would use with Windows will take you a lot farther on Linux. My laptop only has an 850Mhz processor and 128mB RAM, yet it runs just as well has my desktop with Windows, which uses a 2.2Ghz process or and 256mB RAM. So that makes hardware almost half the price due to more efficient use of resources (Windows is SUCH a resource pig). __________________ Alt Journals, Blogs for Perverts! Fitness and nutrition writer, and UNIX/Linux Sys Ad in training "Just as a man who has fallen into a heap of filth ought to seek the great pond of water covered with lotuses, which is near by: even so seek thou for the great deathless lake of Nirvana to wash off the defilement of wrong. If the lake is not sought, it is not the fault of the lake."