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dennis@home wrote:

> 
> "Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com> wrote in message 
> news:eLvkeQNEIHA.3716@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> 
>> On 10/17/2007 7:49 AM On a whim, dennis@home pounded out on the keyboard
>>
>>> "caver1" <caver@inthemud.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:uYEggtLEIHA.2004@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>>> If a a person has no idea what a disc is, let alone a partition, 
>>>> then that person
>>>> has no business installing an OS. And if they do try without the 
>>>> proper backups
>>>> and research, then they can't blame the OS no matter if it is 
>>>> Linux,Windows or whatever.
>>>
>>>
>>> You can say that if you like but maybe you should try the real world 
>>> and see who does get blamed for things like that.
>>>
>>> Note that I did not say the blame was entirely warranted but that 
>>> makes no difference to the user.
>>> BTW calling them stupid and thick isn't going to help them think 
>>> Linux is OK.. its just going to make them think all Linux users are 
>>> like Peter and that will be more black marks.
>>>
>>> Lets face facts.. if you want Linux to be as successful as windows on 
>>> the desktop you are going to have to deal with thick users. You can't 
>>> get far unless you do.
>>
>>
>> The FACTS are, almost ALL Windows installations are pre-installed. 
>> Those who have installed additional OS's learned how to do it 
>> properly, some by trial and error.  If a system came pre-installed 
>> with Linux and a person tried to install Windows, the same thing could 
>> easily happen and then the user would be blaming Windows for their 
>> loss of data.  The FACTS are that most people don't travel into the 
>> realm of setting up multiple OS's.  I'm a consultant and I have 5 OS's 
>> on my system and I still don't think I understand fully all there is 
>> to know about it.
> 
> 
> The facts are that if Linux is to be big on the desktop someone is going 
> to have to install it.
> That will have to be the user AFAICS.
> If you really think Dell or the other small time operators are going to 
> make serious in-roads into windows sales then you are going to be 
> dissapointed.
> Its this "it would be OK if it were pre installed" attitude that stops 
> the solution IMO, no-one wants to fix it because the problem will go away
> 
> 
>>
>> Those who haphazardly attempt it without doing the research in advance 
>> can expect problems.  And if they don't know the basic terms used on 
>> computers and are attempting to install an additional OS on their 
>> system (without making a backup first), they may not be "idiots", but 
>> they're not very smart.
> 
> 
> Welcome to the world of computing as used by the masses.
> It doesn't help when computer shopper put Linux disks on the cover.

Humm, AOL did that and look how they have grown!