[CS-FSLUG] The Fast-Food Syndrome: The Linux Platform is Getting Fat

[Jukka Y]

<joke>So now you have done it! I feel so ashamed. I watch tv from my computer, 
I like to have nice-looking graphical desktop and use gui-programs for most 
tasks in work. The way you put it, I'm not only a "Joe user", but also a 
"Windows-baby" and unprofessional.</joke>

Blessings,
Jukka
;-)

On Thursday 10 June 2004 16:51, Brian Derr wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 08:32:45AM -0500, Ed Hurst wrote:
> > Want pure computing? Run something like DOS, or just get out of the GUI.
> > Linux must get fat to be viable in the marketplace. Aficionados will
> > complain at the hijacking of their OS by the marketplace of Joes, but
> > will at the same time be glad for the money that indirectly blesses the
> > things they like.
> >
> > Maybe I should read that article.... :-)
>
> Hi Ed, how's it going?  Long time no see (or read I suppose).
>
> I have not read the article yet, however, I want to agree with Ed here.
> The reason for all the requirements is all the Windows(r) babies we are
> piling into the boat.  They want fancy graphical do-which-a-ma-bobbies
> and flim-fla-whacka-mojos, not the meat and potatoes.  If you are an
> aficionado of the computer world and use it for WORK then you'll use
> linux, and it's mile long list of applications, because of the stability
> and rock solid performance.  I can get anything done that needs to be
> done in an office done on the console (except for graphical editing and
> stuff like that).
>
> All these people that are switching over to linux because they are tired
> of all the popups and crashes and virii, etc are going to expect to land
> in Windows(r)-land when they are done with the installation of Mandrake
> or Redhat.  I say, let them have a couple of distributions that are
> focused on graphical everything so they can be comfortable in the
> Windows(r)-esque OS.  For the rest of us, we'll keep chugging along with
> our console window in Slackware, Debian or what have you.  The minimum
> requirements for a small, console based distro are phenomenally small.
>
> Do yourself a favor, learn the console and become a PRO at it, then
> laugh at all the other people and their goofy GUIs that just slow them
> down.
>
> Brian