From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-06-22T00:19:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is I/O slow?

james@rubyxml.com wrote:


> This matches my observations as well; I could never imagine convincing my
> sister that any Unix was, in the longer run, better for her than Windows.


Please don't take this as an offense, but didn't you say you're writing 
in MS Word? That might speak to her more than words.


> She just has no interest in doing anything that is even remotely geekish.
> She does not want to try and install some application only to find out she
> has the wrong version of glibc, or needs libpng.so.2.


Which I find very understandable. Desktop Linux has a long way to go.

Tobi

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