XP Performance

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins at opus1.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 7:22 AM
> To: 'Patrick Thurmond'; Brian Densmore
> Cc: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: RE: XP Performance
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Thurmond [mailto:p_thurmond at yahoo.com]
> 
> > I will try to come in December to one of 
> > the meetings and educate everyone on the 
> > features of XP. 
> 
> I think that would be a pretty poor way to spend LUG time, 
> and a very good
> way to get yourself pelted with rotten vegetables.
> 
> We all get plenty of exposure to Microsoft's "education" as it is.
> 
> XP's primary benefit is that license fees go to Redmond.
> 
My thoughts were along the same line. Thanks for the rotten vegatable
idea!
 ;)

> >Heck the worst thing about Linux is the UI. I am sorry to say 
> >but it ain't very user friendly and I don't look forward to 
> >giving it to my parents for their main pc. It just would end up 
> >frustrating the hell out of them. Heck even Redhat wouldn't help.
> >Sorry but that is the one place that MS kicks linux ass is the 
> >UI, but especially the GUI. 

Sorry I don't agree here. What version are you running? Get a recent
release. My wife is about as PC-Handicapped as they get.
And she only has two big beefs with Linux (Mandrake 8.0). One is the
browser, 
I haven't heard any complaints since switching to NS 6.2 for her. And
the second 
is email. She has a yahoo account and she gets these stupid forwarded to
the Nth 
degree emails and she wants an easy way to pull out the last forward and
drop
it in a new email. These emails are ALWAYS multipart emails with cute
animated GIFS.
If I could make it easy for her to do this one feature, I'd be a God
with her for at
least a few days.

JMHO,
Brian