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Yeah I set up my mom with GNOME 3 on Fedora. All she does is browse the internet and play solitaire. That's pretty much a zero maintenance computer right there. Somehow they always manage to destroy windows.
this. Sigh. The number of times I have to clean up all the things she (my mom) manages to install 'tool bars and what not'.
The article is out-of-time. The question nowadays is: 'Why didn't Android become a viable OS for desktops and laptops?'
There is also probably a hardware dimension to the answer: There is a greater distance between a heavy "convertible" part-time touch laptop/tablet-ish device and a real tablet that can be carried like a sheaf of paper than most people appreciate.
Yeah I set up my mom with GNOME 3 on Fedora. All she does is browse the internet and play solitaire. That's pretty much a zero maintenance computer right there. Somehow they always manage to destroy windows.
'Somehow they always manage to destroy windows.' this. Sigh. The number of times I have to clean up all the things she (my mom) manages to install 'tool bars and what not'.
Yeah I set up my mom with GNOME 3 on Fedora. All she does is browse the internet and play solitaire. That's pretty much a zero maintenance computer right there. Somehow they always manage to destroy windows.
I'm wondering about bandwidth for updates and installing software. Ubuntu 15.04 is good for 6 months with updates. Debian current stable with a three DVD iso download (and a DVD drive!) would provide access to the whole software repository offline. There is a delta update DVD for each incremental ISO set.
So this has to be said again : Linux is NOT an operating system, Linux is a Kernel. Android, Debian and OpenWRT are operating systems. Debian even support other kernels than Linux.
If you're going to be pedantic, at least nail it. Debian (Linux) and OpenWRT are distributions. They're super-sets of applications, the GNU tools and the Linux kernel (or HURD). You only need the last two to form an "operating system". Android is a little different in that it doesn't sit on a GNU stack. I'm happier calling Android an operating system than I am Debian and OpenWRT.
Totally off topic, but it seems every website I've visited today has had some utterly obnoxious pop up appear when I'm half way through a sentence. I hope this is a short lived trend.
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If you're going to be pedantic, at least nail it. Debian (Linux) and OpenWRT are distributions. They're super-sets of applications, the GNU tools and the Linux kernel (or HURD). You only need the last two to form an "operating system". Android is a little different in that it doesn't sit on a GNU stack. I'm happier calling Android an operating system than I am Debian and OpenWRT.
If Debian is a distribution and Linux is just the kernel, what do you say if you run Debian and people ask what OS you use?
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'Somehow they always manage to destroy windows.' this. Sigh. The number of times I have to clean up all the things she (my mom) manages to install 'tool bars and what not'.
Have you tried setting her up with a standard user login by default? I did that with my folks and the number of computer questions seems to have gone way down.
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If you're going to be pedantic, at least nail it. Debian (Linux) and OpenWRT are distributions. They're super-sets of applications, the GNU tools and the Linux kernel (or HURD). You only need the last two to form an "operating system". Android is a little different in that it doesn't sit on a GNU stack. I'm happier calling Android an operating system than I am Debian and OpenWRT.
If Debian is a distribution and Linux is just the kernel, what do you say if you run Debian and people ask what OS you use?