Re: [libreoffice-users] Linux alternative

My son is a technical illiterate and one time, when I had got tired of
rescuing his scsrewed-up (often virus-infected) Windows box, I gave him
Ubuntu.  He only uses his computer to surf to his webmail and to
facebook.  Nonetheless, he came to me after a week and asked me to
re-install Windows as he 'didn't understand how to use linux'.  So now I
have an iso of his disk which I reinstall as necessary.  There's never
anything on the actual disk other than the operating system.

James
 
On 2015-07-19 02:02, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> On 07/18/2015 11:54 AM, charles meyer wrote:
> > Hi Jack,
> >
> > You’re most welcome.
> >
> > I think many Windows users are married to old verbiage they heard
> > years ago (some unfounded) about how you’ll need to learn to code or
> > have to learn language like the old DOS to make Linux work and so
> > propelled by fear they remain with Windows.
> >
> > I’m looking forward to all the good work and advancement Eric (on this
> > list) makes with his foray into voice recognition but can you or Gary
> > on this list or others recommend any Linux-based voice recognition?
> >
> > Nuance has dragged their heels in so many ways including developing
> > voice recognition for more than one voice at a time so I don’t feel
> > like I can count on them to offer a Linux-based version by 2020 when
> > MS is supposed to end W7 support.
> >
> > Thanks for disabusing readers of their “Linux-fear” in your article
> > and for your and others voice recognition recommendations.
> >
> > Charles.
>
> I started with computers when punch-cards were still common and
> computers smaller than a refrigerator was not.
>
> I wished I still remembered all the programming skills I have back
> then [but that ended with the strokes].  Users are pampered with a GUI
> and other "modern" items on their really small sized systems, compared
> to what I started working with.  You try writing a general ledger
> accounting system from scratch in COBOL and then tell me that people
> do not have it so easy now.  Well, at least if you do not have to do
> the GUI programming from scratch instead of using templates, or
> needing to do AI work withing a game environment.  But the basic
> business stuff was much harder to produce back then when colored
> printing, or even graphical printing, from a low to middle environment
> business computer was not available at all.  I was programming
> computers for over a decade before I ever saw a colored printer, let
> alone afford one.


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