pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:

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>In article <C8GDq0.1DA@sleeper.apana.org.au> raz@sleeper.apana.org.au (Roland Turner) writes:
>>dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON) writes:
>>
>>>A little reality check here.
>>
>>An accurate reality check here:
>>
>>>  MS-Win is not easy for the average schlemiel
>>>to set up.
>>
>>That's funny - a signifigant number of our customers (I run a branch 
>>office for a PC manufacturer an perform a lot of the company's tech 
>>support) have no difficulty at all installing MSWindows, in fact
>>no one has EVER called me and said "How do I install Windows?"


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>He said "set up" not install.

        I don't like MSWindows myself...but I would thnk that 'setting up'
would be harder then installing...just look at (excuse the analogy) the
SLS distribution...easiest piece of software to install (well, I love it)
but setting it up after installing isn't the easiest if you haven't done
it before...especially stuff like smail and news and etc...

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>I realize that perhaps the point of your post was to discuss how 
>much easier the Linux installation could be made.  And I don't 
>disagree with that point.  However, me and the 100's of analysts
>I work with, take exception when someone perpetrates the myth of
>how great MS Windows is.  In reality, it is little more than demo
>software.  Fine for the dabbler, but hell-on-earth for the techy.

        again...I think the differentiation should be made...SLS
is easy to install, you just throw in disk after disk...it is setting
up some of the packages inside it that can provide the headaches :)

marc

ps.  not putting down the SLS distribution...I think it is great