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[Garry Stahl]

Michael Corral wrote:
> Joe User doesn't have a stockpile of Amigas from the 1980's. ;)
>   

Hey, my last Amiga is from 2001. 


> You have just separated yourself from Joe User by quite a bit.
> Heck, I'm closer to Joe User than you are. :)
>   


>   
>> I also do not demand that all software be free.
>>     
>
> In a sense, Joe User does demand that software be free (as in beer).
> That's why Joe User rarely pays for software. He normally pirates it.
> Though I agree that Joe User usually doesn't care about source code
> availability, or even know what that is.
>   

Actually the Joe Users I see are not pirates.  They wouldn't know were
to get pirate software unless a "friend" gave it to them.  Yea, I'm
funny that way.  I support what I believe in with my bucks.

> That's like saying "tobacco doesn't kill you, except for those times
> when it does."
>   

Well Tobacco WILL kill you.  More like, the car worlds fine until the
brakes fail.  My windows experience while Windows is working right has
been positive.  Once the bad boy breaks it is a different matter.  Not
if, once.  It was Windows failing that drove me into the arms of Linux
in the first place.


> Don't know about that. Linux is a lot easier to use than it was 10 years
> ago (or even 5 years ago). GNOME and KDE are very Windows-ish. I've seen
> kids pick up how to use Linux very quickly. It doesn't take a rocket
> scientist to navigate the menus to launch the web browser (web browsing
> being the primary activity of Joe User). Last summer I set up a PC with
> Linux for my mom, who had never used a computer in her life. She was
> logging in and browsing the web in no time.
>   

It has gotten better.  MUCH better.  I set up my first Linux box (SuSE
8.2) without help.  However there is still a lot of work to do.  Web
browsing is the thing I use this machine for mostly.  I write on the Amiga.

However I am a user with experience is several OSs.

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