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GNU/Linux Desktops with No User Knowledge Needed (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the just-sign-here-and-we'll-take-care-of-everything dept.

Joey Amanchukwu is co-founder and CEO of Transforia, a company that leases computers pre-loaded with Red Hat Enterprise Linux -- a distro choice that may have been made at least partly because Joey used to sell for Red Hat.

There have been other companies that tried to sell Linux desktops and laptops on a "don't worry about a thing; we'll administer them for you, no problem" basis. Not a lot (maybe none) of those companies have survived, as far as we know. Will Transforia manage to make it big? Or at least become profitable? We'll see.

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  1. 2016 is Year of the Linux Desktop!!! by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 3, Funny

    2016 is Year of the Linux Desktop!!! You heard it here first.

  2. OK, read the transcript. by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Informative

    The interviewer seems like a dick. Here's what I think I read:

    Question 1: You have a funny last name. Maybe you belong to a weird ethnic group too?.
    Question 2: You don't live in Silicon Valley, but I do, so fuck you.
    Question 3: I came to this interview completely unprepared. Good luck making your point now.

  3. More Videos by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's with all the useless video garbage?

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  4. Impossible by JustNiz · · Score: 2

    The vast majority of PC users out there are non-technical and just expect everything to look and work identical to MS Windows, and when, for example some Windows hotkey combination doesn't also work on Linux, they seriously think the computer itself must be broken/faulty in some way.
    The problem Linux has to overcome is that the vast majority of non-technical users still don't even understand that the MS Windows interface isn't some inherent property of all computers.

    It boggles my mind that even migrating from one version of Windows to the next apparently results in what they consider to be a giant learning curve, so how can you realistically ever expect them to adapt from Windows to Linux more easily?

    I read a study somewhere that looked at people that had never used any computer before. They found for those people, Linux was much easier to learn from scratch than Windows from scratch. They also found that nearly all people that had learnt to use Windows first before they ever saw Linux that considered Linux much harder to learn/use than Windows. The trouble is, the second group pretty much represents the majority of all people on the planet.

    1. Re:Impossible by JazzLad · · Score: 2

      The vast majority of PC users out there

      some Windows hotkey combination

      The vast majority of PC users out there only use the keyboard to type, the mouse for everything else.

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    2. Re:Impossible by jedidiah · · Score: 3, Interesting

      > how does one magically learn all the special cryptic commands to recompile their kernels and make their audio and or video work correctly? hmmm seems like you might like jumping to conclusions

      They do exactly what they would do if they were running Windows. They get their local Linux user to bail them out.

      You would not believe what a pain an old printer is with Win10. Un-f*cking-believable. It's like I can never set my expectations low enough with Microsoft.

      As far as your trolling nonsense goes...

      I haven't compiled a kernel since the 2.0 days.

      I haven't had issues with video or audio in a scratch Linux install since before Ubuntu 6.

      Not that either of these would be a problem in a preloaded system. It "just works" for the same reason a pre-loaded Windows box does. Someone else did the work for you.

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    3. Re:Impossible by JustNiz · · Score: 2

      yes, but just because its got Microsoft written on it there's a very large blind spot in society so it gets an almost free pass from them.

      I consider that phenomenon as being almost but not quite analogous to the way that very many Apple customers are anally obsessive about annually throwing away a perfectly good phone and wasting another $650 to re-buy a pretty much functionally identical one, just because it has version n not version (n-1) written on it.

  5. Re:A what? by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linux on the Desktop and Slashdot fixing typos?

    We truly are living in the future.

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  6. Re:Why did Red Hat adopt SystemD? One guess. by dbIII · · Score: 2

    It IS a RedHat project - they even paid for Lennart to go to conferences to promote systemd when it was only a concept as well as his salary while he was writing it from day one.