🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 19:12:53 GMT, Jimmy Chan <jimmy@hgea.org> wrote:

>
>I think you are definitely mistaken here.  There are various
>distributors of Linux with different customizations to make it
>suitable for the masses.  Some of the distributions have GUIs that you
>install Linux from and once it gets installed all you ever see is the
>GUI, you never see a command prompt unless you want to start delving
>into the power user area. 
>
>The Power Users will still have what they want and the masses will
>have only the GUI, Linux is customizable for what the user wants.
>Most current Linux users agree that having a GUI installation that can
>easily recognize devices is important to gather momentum within the
>computing community.


Can you point to one that actually accomplishes this?  I am a fairly
capable user of Windows, and I've been looking for a version of Linux
that does what you state.  However, none have yet proven capable of
installing themselves with anything near the degree of ease of
Windows.  I've tried Corel Linux, Debian, Mandrake 6.0, Mandrake 7.0,
RedHat, WinLinux, Phat Linux, and probably a couple more whose nanes
escape me at the moment.  The closest I have come to success was with
Corel Linux, where I actually got it to recognize my network card and
the Internet, but gave up after trying to figure out how to download
and install additional software such as Corel's own WordPerfect.
Until Linux can solve the problem of the user having to determine
which version of the available software will work on his system, and
make it possible to install additional software without standing on
your head, it's going to continue to be an oddity much beloved by
geeks, but not useful in the real world.