re: Re-install Windows 98 ["upgrade" disk]
Monday, August 17, 2009 at 9:34 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3938 messages posted)
Steve wrote:
|Linux Free to Install, but cost to Learn to use is $3784.50 more then Windows.
|Based on Minimum US wages of $7.25 per hour,
|and a average of 522 hours more time to learn the basics.
Ah. Thus the old verisimilitude
"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
Interesting numbers, but the fact is, with a point & click environment,
Joe Average gets a 5 minute intro to an OS from a friend or co-worker
and manages just fine from there.
If the apps average people use are there on the desktop, ready to be clicked
(and they *are*), it won't even take that amount of time to get going.
If the newbie is *already* familiar with the concept of a directory tree,
it takes even less time than that to become productive with Linux.
Of course, it's fun to toss about the old doom and gloom lines
about the modern competitor that has a fresh build from just weeks ago.
OTOH, popping in a CD that starts up to a graphical desktop
rebutts that FUD
in short order.
The fact that the Linux CD recognizes and configures all the hardware
without the need to scurry about finding separate device driver disks
really wows most folks.
(The LiveCDs have to be able to do that or they wouldn't be as useful as they are.)
A big point from the Free Software side:
The Linux user doesn't have to learn how to futz with anti-malware apps.
The default install of a *n*x environment is hardened to deal with all of that.[1]
(I've been wondering if malware is the reason the OP is jumping thru this hoop.)
...and on the nerdy side, for those who *want* to make the investment
and REALLY get the most out of their OS, Slashdot had a tag line the other day:
"Hackers do for free what others do for money."
It's also useful to be familiar with a Linux CD for when Windoze implodes.
[1] ...and, of course, Win9x is the lowest of all OSes, with ZERO *actual* security.
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