"Granny - Just edit your Registry!" Re: hoax or bad taste jokeby Redhat's CEO?

[Justin L Croonenberghs]

On a unrelated note;

I really don't understand where people have all these problems with
2000/XP...95/98/Me is perfectly understandable, given their status as
abominations. But clean installs of 2000/XP have never given me trouble.
I've bluescreened them once, and that was after foolishly trying to use a
very old piece of hardware that only has 9x real mode drivers.

Maybe I drink different water?

:-)

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Vince Scimeca said:
> On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 16:34, Steve Withers wrote:
>> On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 18:05, Justin L Croonenberghs wrote:
>> > Why not? He's being honest. Can you honestly imagine your grandma
>> picking
>> > up a computer and then finding out she needs to edit her /etc/inittab?
>> >
>> > :-)
>>
>> If she wants Internet browsing and e-mail, there would be no need for
>> her to do that.
>>
>> Would you tell yer Grandma all she needs to do is run 'regedit' and make
>> some changes to her registry keys?
>>
>> Or how do you explain she needs to patch new XP system to keep the worm
>> viruses away....but she can't connect to the Internet to download the
>> patch becasue she will be infected?
>>
>> This is just two situations that are more of a pain than most things I
>> do on Linux.
>>
>> There are many more.
>
> I agree.  I have been a RH user for some time now.  My wife, who would
> probably be considered to have average PC knowledge has always been a M$
> user.  After getting tired of rebuilding her W2K laptop for who knows
> how many times for many various reasons I instead rebuilt her laptop to
> RH.  I checked with her to see what apps she needed (browser, email, doc
> editor, spreadsheet) and thought this would be a good thing to do.
> Hell, if she didn't like it I could always bring her back to M$.  It has
> been several months now that she has been running RH and I have not had
> to touch the machine to address any issues since I handed it over to
> her...and she uses it on a daily basis.  She has no reason to know
> anything about opening a terminal for what she needs to do.  I am not
> saying that this is an ideal situation for the masses, but I also don't
> think Linux should be looked at as something you need to be a computer
> geek to understand.  Luckily in our situation if my wife had an issue
> with it she has a computer geek who can take care of it ;-)
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