You have a valid point. We should probably further define "work" as not-IT vs. IT. For those of us that work in the industry, work and hobby are mostly one and the same. For those not in IT, I agree, productivity shouldn't come to a halt while trying to figure out some computer-non-work-related task.(you have friendly neighborhood sys-admins for that....:)) To that end, KDE, Ximian, and Gnome all have interfaces that windows users find surprisingly familiar. As for distro's, Mandrake and Redhat are probably the easiest to get up and running, and both have an rpm package management system to get around the make...compile problems you were mentioning. As your knowledge grows, you'll see where rpm has shortcomings, but in the beginning it can be helpful in cutting down your level of frustration.
I didn't call you stupid, nor do I think you so, but come on, your argument does sound a bit on the lazy side. You've heard the saying, nothing worth having comes eazy ?? I'll grant you the learning curve can be steep sometimes, but if it alienates anyone, it's because they allow it to. All the "free" OS's as well as Open Source in general wouldn't be as popular if the learning curve were an impossible task. Seriously, if you don't enjoy learning, then you should stick with windows. It was designed with the idea of the user having minimal knowledge. That's not a knock on you or windows, that's just the way it is.
This argument is flawed on several levels. By this logic, the rest of the world should have allowed Hitler to slaughter all the Jews he wished because Germany was a sovereign nation. Islam and the Koran don't agree with Saddam's actions any more than Christianity agreed with Hitlers. Not only is it our right to hold another government accountable for it's actions, it's our responsibility, just as other governments hold us accountable. The world we live in doesn't exist in an idealistic vaccum. Any war sucks, reasonable people understand this, but the problem comes when dealing with unreasonable people. You're saying a psychopath should be allowed to contine doing what ever he wishes without consequences. War sucks, I'll grant you that, and you may not agree with our reasons for being there, it doesn't change the fact it was the right thing to do, as much as it was for us to enter WWII and stop Hitler.
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You have a valid point. We should probably further define "work" as not-IT vs. IT. For those of us that work in the industry, work and hobby are mostly one and the same. For those not in IT, I agree, productivity shouldn't come to a halt while trying to figure out some computer-non-work-related task.(you have friendly neighborhood sys-admins for that....:)) To that end, KDE, Ximian, and Gnome all have interfaces that windows users find surprisingly familiar. As for distro's, Mandrake and Redhat are probably the easiest to get up and running, and both have an rpm package management system to get around the make...compile problems you were mentioning. As your knowledge grows, you'll see where rpm has shortcomings, but in the beginning it can be helpful in cutting down your level of frustration.
I didn't call you stupid, nor do I think you so, but come on, your argument does sound a bit on the lazy side. You've heard the saying, nothing worth having comes eazy ?? I'll grant you the learning curve can be steep sometimes, but if it alienates anyone, it's because they allow it to. All the "free" OS's as well as Open Source in general wouldn't be as popular if the learning curve were an impossible task. Seriously, if you don't enjoy learning, then you should stick with windows. It was designed with the idea of the user having minimal knowledge. That's not a knock on you or windows, that's just the way it is.
Perhaps if you fix your laziness problem, and learn what make...compile actually does things would work......just a thought
This argument is flawed on several levels. By this logic, the rest of the world should have allowed Hitler to slaughter all the Jews he wished because Germany was a sovereign nation. Islam and the Koran don't agree with Saddam's actions any more than Christianity agreed with Hitlers. Not only is it our right to hold another government accountable for it's actions, it's our responsibility, just as other governments hold us accountable. The world we live in doesn't exist in an idealistic vaccum. Any war sucks, reasonable people understand this, but the problem comes when dealing with unreasonable people. You're saying a psychopath should be allowed to contine doing what ever he wishes without consequences. War sucks, I'll grant you that, and you may not agree with our reasons for being there, it doesn't change the fact it was the right thing to do, as much as it was for us to enter WWII and stop Hitler.