Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Thu Jul 25 01:32:34 CDT 2013
Hi Jim and Stuart Exactly. /gustav >>> stuart at lexacorp.com.pg 24-07-13 7:44 >>> And that, ladies and gentlemen is why Linux has such a hard time getting a pruchase in a business environment. I personally am VERY glad that there are only a limited number of Windows desktops so that I can talk Susie User through things. -- Stuart On 23 Jul 2013 at 15:55, Jim Lawrence wrote: > Hi Gustav: > > Variety is the spice of life and these distros are not a stand-alone > OSS but more likef a pretty desktop on top of > Linux-Debian/Slackware/Fedora and so on. This of course allows anyone > with more time than they know what to do with, to crank out their > desktops and customize their own working environment to the nth degree > and then post it and see if there are other that agree. > > I personally wish Windows was like that so there would be dozens of > desktops for every situation and platform... and easy to exchange if > so desired. Microsoft's virtual bare-bones command-prompt server is > starting to attract this type of attention and we may have a number of > distro to choose from, in the future.