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On 2007-10-16, Gene Jones <jasin@janus.com> wrote:
> chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Gene Jones wrote:
>> 
>> > sorry for 
>> > your loss, but linux kids will bitch and complain that it is YOUR fault, 
>> 
>> Which it was.  Only a freaking idiot does partitioning and such on an
>> "important" machine without the knowledge that such things have the
>> ability to cause data loss, especially when you don't know what you're
>> doing.
>
> ah, on a well crafted OS, it would be IMPOSSIBLE to do what happened to 
> this person. The Linux community screwed up, and should go to work at 
> repairing ALL distros with this FLAW to make sure this combination can 
> never happen again. You guys just lost 80,000 potential linux users by 
> this single error. Fix it, don't bitch.

True. (except for the 80,000 number).

> problem is Linux will have users that aren't poor, or uneducated, they 
> EXPECT things to work like OSX or other high level OSs. Thus, you get 
> posts like this from time to time. 
>
> Linux is flawed, NEVER the user. That's a UI fact the Linux community 
> just doesn't understand.

I have been using Linux for the last 12 years. Without a doubt, it has
a long way to go to be safely usable by an "average user" (read a low
IQ person with minimal computing needs). However, that long way is not
infinite and Linux nowadays has made great progress, and being
actually easy to use is within reach. I would say in a year or two, it
will be very easy to use.

Even now, my Linux laptop works in a quite straightforward way, with
the exception of wifi (it works, but was hard to set up). Fedora 8
with NetworkManager 0.7 is supposed to fix it, though we'll see.

Windows has its flaws too, such as when an "average user" finds his
bank or PayPal account emptied due to operating system defects, or
when the OS crashes in the middle of some important task. Example of
this would be a Windows server crashing in a datacenter on a Sunday
afternoon.

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