Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Mon Jan 14 22:01:18 CST 2013
How could that be a bad thing? It has already resulted in much improve video card drivers for nvidia and ati with better hardware performance, because these companies now have a greater incentive to not do a half assed job of it. :) - Hans Sent from my iPhone On 2013-01-14, at 7:33 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > I think that says it all Arthur. > > Linux is no longer for just geeks but for anyone. Everyone should have a > copy if it is only for fun. (It very nicely installs itself as a dual boot > if you don't have enough PCs while not cramping the existing system) > > I have virtually zero interest in PC games and therefore Linux suited me > very well but it seems with a number of major game distributors migrating > their game engines onto the Linux platform that is all going change. I am > not sure whether that pleases me. > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 5:19 PM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] PCs are here to stay > > While my experience is limited pretty much to Ubuntu and Mint, and so I > can't opine about how far the others have come, I will go so far as to > suggest that pretty much anybody, even a brand-new user, can set up a > Linux system now. It takes nothing more than booting from a CD or DVD. If > you can do that, you can run Linux. Obviously such a user may never see a > command line, but then he has no need to. > > A. > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com