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Originally Posted by arjaybe
I thought the hokum about Linux had run its course and was fading away. Apparently not yet in the land of devices, I see. It's okay. We can wait for you to catch up.-)
rjb
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Originally Posted by arjaybe
I can see how you got the opposite of what I meant. ie, that I was saying that Linux is hokum, when I meant that so much of what people say about it is hokum. Funny.-) I like Linux because it is so easy to use, while not hiding the power underneath.
rjb
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Then I'm bit confused. On devices, it seems Linux is usually hidden by an embedded custom layer of some kind, often resulting in wonderfully easy to use, powerful devices.
On the desktop, while it's certainly true that Linux distros have come a LONG way since I first tried to install version 0.9 off of 20 5.25" floppies, and it is indeed true that day-to-day desktop app use is no harder than Windows or OSX (in fact my 7 and 10 year old kids use my Linux laptop for web browsing and playing Minecraft as readily as they use my wife's stock Chromebook), it is also indisputable that many common admin tasks, software installs and the use of many common apps and utilities--the kind of stuff a home consumer responsible for his her or her own support and maintenance is likely to need now and then -- are still often far more complex then their Mac or Windows equivalents.