🚀 go-pugleaf

Charles Packer wrote:
> 
> In article <36C0F951.C02F7B46@GlobalOne.net>, Ben Russo wrote:
> >I think we should relax, be friendly, let Linux sell itself.
 
<snip>
 
> I say this as a Linux fan and user for the last four years:
> If Linux is ever going to sell itself, the hackers that created it
> are going to have to take time off from tweaking the kernel and
> get cracking on _successfully_ automating the video configuration
> portion of the installation process.

I agree whole heartedly.  If Linux wants to compete on the desktop with
Windows, it does need to become less user knowledge dependent.  
Windows, for better or worst makes it's success on the fact that people
can install it, and most times get it running with little computer
knowledge. RH 5.2 goes a long way to improving configurations with
detection of sound, video, NICs etc.. and well as many admin functions
now in GUI (e.g. linuxconf), it still requires a user to run them or see
them running.  It needs to do this detection and as much of the
configuration without the user knowing it is happening and just ask for
preference information (resolution, background color).  

Don't get me wrong here, I use Linux and am somewhat anti M$, but if
Linux is to gain large market on the desktop, it needs to get to a point
to where the non technical user "feels comfortable" with it, and that
required dummying it down to where Windows is.

Tom