tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474321140763590831.post7542157100290676441..comments2024-03-18T10:43:28.122+00:00Comments on Linux notes from DarkDuck: Guillermo Garron: Linux can be as easy as Windows, but you can complicate it as much as you wantDarkDuck (m)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06273784224243667602noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474321140763590831.post-74547709224861579992012-03-15T21:01:41.321+00:002012-03-15T21:01:41.321+00:00You know. I have written about that in the past:
...You know. I have written about that in the past:<br /><br />http://www.go2linux.org/blogs/2010/05/hardware-drivers-only-linux-problem-741<br /><br />And yes, there is a problem, a problem the hardware makers need to help to solve.<br /><br />We are in the egg or the hen.<br /><br />- Should the hardware makers need to put effort into dealing with Linux modules (Drivers) before Linux is popular.<br /><br />- Should the Linux community try to make it more popular with Marketing and then hardware makers will have support Linux users.<br /><br />Hard to say, and I'm sure there are people more prepared to answer this than me.Guillermo Garronhttp://www.garron.menoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474321140763590831.post-32656004257124326812012-03-15T13:48:57.641+00:002012-03-15T13:48:57.641+00:00GG says that he thinks linux is ready for prime ti...GG says that he thinks linux is ready for prime time and what we need is marketing.<br /><br />I’ve been looking at this issue for several months now, comparing distributions, assessing their strengths and weaknesses, and trying to identify the problems for an ordinary person migrating from Windows or Mac to linux.<br /><br />Someone says somewhere about the distro Peppermint that they have never met anyone who didn’t know what to do when they opened up its desktop for the first time. I agree. It gives nothing but a menu—and from that, away you go, in intuitively obvious ways. So there are distros that newbies can handle.<br /><br />But—and this is a big but—there are three problems for the non-geek: downloading a distro, installing it, and getting their hardware to work. In particular getting the printer installed and the scanner—these two I have found again and again to be big obstacles, in distro after distro. Occasionally the distro can’t find the ethernet. Occasionally Virtualbox will not install correctly.<br /><br />I’m pondering—what do we do to overcome the hardware problems?Warner Whitehttp://www.warnerwhite.orgnoreply@blogger.com