I agree if it's a choice between losing / or/home. But given a choice between losing/home or losing the whole shebang, including/home ( or My Documents), that's a no-brainer.
I'll name one right off the bat: Quicken 2004! It stores its data files in system directories where a limited user doesn't have access. To be fair, Quicken 2006 stores its files in My Documents, but if Intuit was doing that 3 years after XP was released, I'm sure a lot of other vendors are still doing that.
Maybe if Microsoft had made non-admin the default, or even included a first-time message explaining why the user shouldn't run as Administrator, I'd be willing to cut them some slack. With their defaults, the average user doesn't even realize he should have a password, let alone a limited account. The devs have no reason to change.
I just got a brand new computer, and from the specs it should run circles around my old box. But it's actually slower than the older machine. The new box has Norton 2005 and the old one had Avast.
My mom's not quite 80, and she's almost never used a computer. She's certainly never used a PC and doesn't plan to. She does occasionly ask me to order something for her online or research something for her, but that's it.
Mainly because if my neighbor's cat uses IE, all the websites will be coded to it, locking out other browsers. I wouldn't care if my neighbor uses FF, the cat uses Opera, and Rover uses Safari, as long as they're not using IE.
I don't bother with all that. I just tell them that the FF icon is the new way into the internet, and the blue E is obsolete and will let viruses onto their system.
Exactly. It's easier to convince someone to switch from Windows to a different OS if they're already using Firefox & Open Office. It's more intimidating to switch OS AND apps at the same time.
Yes, Ubuntu had just gotten out of beta IIRC. Admittedly, I haven't tried Linux for awhile, in part because Windows doesn't suck nearly as badly as it did in the Win9X days, and partly because of all the trouble I had in the beginning.
But the real test of a Google Linux isn't whether a slashdot geek can install it. The real test will be if Joe Sixpack can either install it, or easily get a pre-loaded box.
No, it booted. IIRC (it was almost 2 years ago now), RH hung in the middle of the install, Ubuntu installed but didn't recognize my monitor, and Suse found the monitor but not the sound or network card.
Burned Ubuntu, purchased the others. And the hardware was brand new, which is probably the problem. I had installed RedHat, Suse, and even Slackware on older boxes with no problem. But not on my "latest and greatest" box.
Linux has apps to satisfy 90+% of anyone's needs, but that last 10% is a problem. Where is the Tax software? For that matter, where is a Quicken work-alike that can DL info from my bank?
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No, I'm sure men get in plenty of wrecks.
The normal user may not know how much RAM FF eats, but he will notice as it gets sloower and slooower and slooooooooower!
Fine, if you know how to do that. Not fine for Joe Sixpack who probably doesn't even know he's running as Administrator.
I agree if it's a choice between losing / or /home. But given a choice between losing /home or losing the whole shebang, including /home ( or My Documents), that's a no-brainer.
I'll name one right off the bat: Quicken 2004! It stores its data files in system directories where a limited user doesn't have access. To be fair, Quicken 2006 stores its files in My Documents, but if Intuit was doing that 3 years after XP was released, I'm sure a lot of other vendors are still doing that.
Maybe if Microsoft had made non-admin the default, or even included a first-time message explaining why the user shouldn't run as Administrator, I'd be willing to cut them some slack. With their defaults, the average user doesn't even realize he should have a password, let alone a limited account. The devs have no reason to change.
I just got a brand new computer, and from the specs it should run circles around my old box. But it's actually slower than the older machine. The new box has Norton 2005 and the old one had Avast.
Dankon. Mi ne memori kiel al diri "LoL" en Esperanton.
Thanks. I didn't remember how to say "LoL" in Esperanto.
My mom's not quite 80, and she's almost never used a computer. She's certainly never used a PC and doesn't plan to. She does occasionly ask me to order something for her online or research something for her, but that's it.
I wish Bush had said something about going to Mars in this speech. The applause on that would have been deafening!
Sorry, but a Klingon warrior knows as much about language as a pointy-eared Vulcan does about child care.
Mainly because if my neighbor's cat uses IE, all the websites will be coded to it, locking out other browsers. I wouldn't care if my neighbor uses FF, the cat uses Opera, and Rover uses Safari, as long as they're not using IE.
I don't bother with all that. I just tell them that the FF icon is the new way into the internet, and the blue E is obsolete and will let viruses onto their system.
Exactly. It's easier to convince someone to switch from Windows to a different OS if they're already using Firefox & Open Office. It's more intimidating to switch OS AND apps at the same time.
Yes, Ubuntu had just gotten out of beta IIRC. Admittedly, I haven't tried Linux for awhile, in part because Windows doesn't suck nearly as badly as it did in the Win9X days, and partly because of all the trouble I had in the beginning.
But the real test of a Google Linux isn't whether a slashdot geek can install it. The real test will be if Joe Sixpack can either install it, or easily get a pre-loaded box.
No, it booted. IIRC (it was almost 2 years ago now), RH hung in the middle of the install, Ubuntu installed but didn't recognize my monitor, and Suse found the monitor but not the sound or network card.
Tech support: "What browser are you using?"
User: "IE"
Tech support: "You don't have to scream, I was just asking a question"
Will Goognapster run on GoogOS?
Burned Ubuntu, purchased the others. And the hardware was brand new, which is probably the problem. I had installed RedHat, Suse, and even Slackware on older boxes with no problem. But not on my "latest and greatest" box.
Linux has apps to satisfy 90+% of anyone's needs, but that last 10% is a problem. Where is the Tax software? For that matter, where is a Quicken work-alike that can DL info from my bank?
And yet, my computer chocked on Ubuntu (and RedHat and SuSe). They CAN be simple and straightforward if you're lucky. They can also fail.
I sure don't want my documents or Quicken files online!
And while Linux can RUN on almost all PCs, installing it can be a PITA, and some things *cough*sound*uncough* might not work.
*cough*Quicken*uncough*
Unless they can get gnucash (gnooglecash?) to connect to my bank.
is to get the damn thing on my PC. A PC that has barfed on Fedora, SuSe, and Ubuntu. Unless Google can succeed when those others failed, no dice!
So are slahsdotterz.