The stereotypes are for the most part accurate because of stereotype threat, that being how women and men are raised in the United States.
A majority of women in the USA have a problem with entitlement and yes, thinking that all they have to do is be pretty to make a living. Men made it that way. Here little girl, interested in chess, have GIRL'S CHESS! Now comes with makeup. Etc, etc.
I'm glad to hear from your anecdotal evidence that you found someone, like a lot of other women, who are a part of the other portion of the statistics, but nonetheless, being politically correct over facing the facts is just silly.
"They even know what an alternative OS is and want to run one..."
They don't need to know or want an alternative, you still can provide the technical benefits (well, firstly, its free). You could also buy a Windows OS, but I don't see why you would, as I must go back to my original point, I've switched a high school lab (about 30 computers) from Windows XP to Debian, with a Windows XP theme/appearance tweaks (renaming icons, stupid stuff like that). It's been going smoothly for 3 years now. I've saved them money on practically all malware removal in the future, plus free upgrades, as well as me benefiting from using systems I *want* to administrate. It's an all around win-win. Anwho, I digress.
"You have some way to test that Ubuntu will have ALL of the drivers for the myriad of hardware these people have so it all "just works" OOTB."
It's worked on every public computer I've come across.
"Oh and then you get the "fun" of explaining what a BIOS is, how to get into it..."
Nah, sillbo baggins, there's no need to explain CMOS configuration, just explaining that you need to watch for a "boot menu" key that is listed on startup, usually a function key. Then, select which device you want to boot from. My 10 year old brother understands this process.
"Moving on to games..."
Exactly, why not a bootable Linux MAME stick?
AbiWord is nice, minimal dependencies in FBSD ports.
Pretty sure it's anger derived from an obvious display of laziness, by expecting someone else to take their time to explain something the user should have researched before diving into a new operating system.
I think DSLinux would be more appropriate, especially if you're not sure how fast the computer you're plugging into might be. It's straightforward and comes with useful/practical applications.
Wait, I'm confused; FBSD also has support for KDE3 and Gnome2. I haven't used Gnome or KDE in years, but I know these are "legacy/classic" versions, before they turned to shit. Praytell, are you suggesting that Linux or FreeBSD can't use KDE3 & Gnome2, but PC-BSD can?
I'm currently responding to you from a FreeBSD installation, utilizing my 460 WHDI on my TV in another room. I used the default Xorg file + nvidia-settings. I had been playing lots of Minecraft on it... Anywho, it all took about one hour of actual interactive time to setup my FBSD box, so I really don't know what you're going on about.
What exactly about FreeBSD is "harder?" The documentation is great and the configuration files are simple. Plus, ZFS!
I've sometimes spent less time setting up FBSD or OBSD servers than some Linux installations. It's all about context.
Non-self-researched support isn't really an issue for me, as I typically am running FreeBSD or OpenBSD as network and website servers. Most BSD licenses are great for, well, not even having to worry about the license, really. They've both held up amazingly well and I haven't had any problems with the operating systems. Then again, FBSD is my desktop OS, so I am quite used to it.
I note that our environments probably differ; the network I administrate, which has an OpenBSD network server and a FreeBSD website server, is a school. It's been painless and reliable.
I also plan on changing my hosting server (I host a bunch of my client's sites) operating system from OpenBSD to FreeBSD sometime soon, as performance is a growing concern, as traffic grows for each client.
Also, irc://irc.freenode.net/freebsd, irc://irc.freenode.net/openbsd, irc://irc.freenode.net/netbsd are all great support channels.
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Yeah, it has nothing to do with the inhumane conditions of Foxconn.
The stereotypes are for the most part accurate because of stereotype threat, that being how women and men are raised in the United States. A majority of women in the USA have a problem with entitlement and yes, thinking that all they have to do is be pretty to make a living. Men made it that way. Here little girl, interested in chess, have GIRL'S CHESS! Now comes with makeup. Etc, etc. I'm glad to hear from your anecdotal evidence that you found someone, like a lot of other women, who are a part of the other portion of the statistics, but nonetheless, being politically correct over facing the facts is just silly.
VIM.
"They even know what an alternative OS is and want to run one..." They don't need to know or want an alternative, you still can provide the technical benefits (well, firstly, its free). You could also buy a Windows OS, but I don't see why you would, as I must go back to my original point, I've switched a high school lab (about 30 computers) from Windows XP to Debian, with a Windows XP theme/appearance tweaks (renaming icons, stupid stuff like that). It's been going smoothly for 3 years now. I've saved them money on practically all malware removal in the future, plus free upgrades, as well as me benefiting from using systems I *want* to administrate. It's an all around win-win. Anwho, I digress. "You have some way to test that Ubuntu will have ALL of the drivers for the myriad of hardware these people have so it all "just works" OOTB." It's worked on every public computer I've come across. "Oh and then you get the "fun" of explaining what a BIOS is, how to get into it..." Nah, sillbo baggins, there's no need to explain CMOS configuration, just explaining that you need to watch for a "boot menu" key that is listed on startup, usually a function key. Then, select which device you want to boot from. My 10 year old brother understands this process. "Moving on to games..." Exactly, why not a bootable Linux MAME stick? AbiWord is nice, minimal dependencies in FBSD ports.
Pretty sure it's anger derived from an obvious display of laziness, by expecting someone else to take their time to explain something the user should have researched before diving into a new operating system.
I think DSLinux would be more appropriate, especially if you're not sure how fast the computer you're plugging into might be. It's straightforward and comes with useful/practical applications.
Bootable BSD or Linux on USB.
Wait, I'm confused; FBSD also has support for KDE3 and Gnome2. I haven't used Gnome or KDE in years, but I know these are "legacy/classic" versions, before they turned to shit. Praytell, are you suggesting that Linux or FreeBSD can't use KDE3 & Gnome2, but PC-BSD can?
I'm currently responding to you from a FreeBSD installation, utilizing my 460 WHDI on my TV in another room. I used the default Xorg file + nvidia-settings. I had been playing lots of Minecraft on it... Anywho, it all took about one hour of actual interactive time to setup my FBSD box, so I really don't know what you're going on about. What exactly about FreeBSD is "harder?" The documentation is great and the configuration files are simple. Plus, ZFS! I've sometimes spent less time setting up FBSD or OBSD servers than some Linux installations. It's all about context.
Non-self-researched support isn't really an issue for me, as I typically am running FreeBSD or OpenBSD as network and website servers. Most BSD licenses are great for, well, not even having to worry about the license, really. They've both held up amazingly well and I haven't had any problems with the operating systems. Then again, FBSD is my desktop OS, so I am quite used to it. I note that our environments probably differ; the network I administrate, which has an OpenBSD network server and a FreeBSD website server, is a school. It's been painless and reliable. I also plan on changing my hosting server (I host a bunch of my client's sites) operating system from OpenBSD to FreeBSD sometime soon, as performance is a growing concern, as traffic grows for each client. Also, irc://irc.freenode.net/freebsd, irc://irc.freenode.net/openbsd, irc://irc.freenode.net/netbsd are all great support channels.