"Taking on" the entire desktop front is too much, impractical and ill-advised. Carving out one piece of it is more practical.
As a Joe-couple-cans-short-of-a-six-pack, typical, average Luser, I think Linux is faster, more secure and less pop-up obnoxious for personal internet usage than the MS environment.
So, I say start with a solid, simple hand-holding way of getting a dual booting system installed. Strip down and design the distro around home internet useage creating a 'internet side/space'. Have desktops already named, email, web, UseNet, firewall, System Monitors.. whatever.
Forget non-internet applications, cameras, GFX, video, scanners... all that other stuff. These things can be done on the other side let's call it the 'work side' (or if you prefer 'dark side'). Of course the kernel must bootup with ntfs read and fat r/w capabiities.
The restrictive compatability issues with the MSfs would therefore become an asset. For the sake of security you don't want to be able to write to the work side only read from it as long as all your data files will be accessible to your internet apps while at the same time being kept safe. Also, the information from your internet side would be accessible only via a separate 'holding tank' (partition) that would be read/write (FAT) accessible to both sides. This holding tank would be under very heavy and very focused virus scrutiny from both sides.
The fact that there are two different operating systems at work here is a strong point in terms of security.
For all your sugarcentric rage you have it mostly wrong.
There were not 6-7 channels... rather 3-6 (3 networks plus 1-2 snowy UHF PBS's). In rural areas this might have been 0-2 channels.
If you think that the sights and smells of unleaded gas was the memorable point about gas in the 70's... you really need some serious quality quiet time.
If you consider 'Seinfeld' to have been a quality benchmark then I guess you could say that 'TV mostly sucked'.
The nation did not see Vietnam as a 'fluk' but rather a fight to liberate a country from terrorism, oh.. sorry, I mean communism. This also happened a 1/2 generation earlier in Korea.
Drugs (as in illegal drugs.. as in pot) were something umm.. most/a lot/many,many people under the age of 30 used. They (it) was very popular among college students. It was not confined to the 'low born gutter scum' by any means. Also, there was a very consistant connection between 'the drug culture' and (gasp) reading.
Playboy was never considered 'hardcore' porn by anyone outside of strict religious orthodoxy. The 70's were not a more innocent time. There were much more... well, you have to know about the 'underground movement' to get it. I don't think you do.
I liked the 'less dry part of the cesspool' part though.
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"Taking on" the entire desktop front is too much, impractical and ill-advised. Carving out one piece of it is more practical.
As a Joe-couple-cans-short-of-a-six-pack, typical, average Luser, I think Linux is faster, more secure and less pop-up obnoxious for personal internet usage
than the MS environment.
So, I say start with a solid, simple hand-holding way of getting a dual booting system installed. Strip down and design the distro around home internet useage creating
a 'internet side/space'. Have desktops already named, email, web, UseNet, firewall,
System Monitors.. whatever.
Forget non-internet applications, cameras, GFX, video, scanners... all that other stuff. These things can be done on the other side let's call it the 'work side' (or if you prefer 'dark side'). Of course the kernel must bootup with ntfs read and fat r/w capabiities.
The restrictive compatability issues with the MSfs would therefore become an asset. For the sake of security you don't want to be able to write to the work side only read from it as long as all your data files will be accessible to your internet apps while at the same time being kept safe. Also, the information from your internet side would
be accessible only via a separate 'holding tank' (partition) that would be read/write (FAT) accessible to both sides. This holding tank would be under very heavy and very focused virus scrutiny from both sides.
The fact that there are two different operating systems at work here is a strong point in terms of security.
How to get Linux on desktops? Linux = Internet.
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... well, you have to know about the 'underground movement' to get it. I don't think you do.
For all your sugarcentric rage you have it mostly wrong.
There were not 6-7 channels... rather 3-6 (3 networks plus 1-2 snowy UHF PBS's). In rural areas this might have been 0-2 channels.
If you think that the sights and smells of unleaded gas was the memorable point about gas in the 70's... you really need some serious quality quiet time.
If you consider 'Seinfeld' to have been a quality benchmark then I guess you could say that 'TV mostly sucked'.
The nation did not see Vietnam as a 'fluk' but rather a fight to liberate a country from terrorism, oh.. sorry, I mean communism. This also happened a 1/2 generation earlier in Korea.
Drugs (as in illegal drugs.. as in pot) were something umm.. most/a lot/many,many people under the age of 30 used. They (it) was very popular among college students. It was not confined to the 'low born gutter scum' by any means. Also, there was a very consistant connection between 'the drug culture' and (gasp) reading.
Playboy was never considered 'hardcore' porn by anyone outside of strict religious orthodoxy. The 70's were not a more innocent time. There were much more
I liked the 'less dry part of the cesspool' part though.