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   From: "Michel Firholz"    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:13:55 +0100   
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   bigjon wrote:   
   > Michel Firholz wrote:   
   >   
   >> CBFalconer wrote:   
   >>> Michel Firholz wrote:   
   >>> There is also a difference in philosophy.  I want to tell the   
   >>> machine what to do.   
   >> ...and I want that machine to understand me, which it is also   
   >> currently doing to a very high extend.   
   >>   
   >>> The gooey systems want to tell me what limited   
   >>> things I can do.  There is a place for both.   
   >>>   
   >> Sure! I never pretended anything else: let's make simple things the   
   >> easy way and let's make the complicated things easy.   
   >   
   > From a newbies point of view, It is nice to learn how to use this OS   
   > from a limited gui position,   
   Full ack...   
   > then learn the intricacys later...   
   ....if you need it!   
      
   > when I am more confident...   
   Ubuntu will allow you to do more and more intuitively, that is what made it    
   successful.   
   I just bitterly miss  the speech recognition.   
   -)   
      
   > I chose ubuntu because it will allow that - I need to be able to turn   
   > it on and know that the internet, sound and video etc are going to   
   > work, things like installing basic drivers and the Add/Remove are   
   > really good, point and click, so I am at ease.   
   Yes, me too.   
      
   > Installing software  from other than the repositories is a nightmare for a    
   > point and clicker IMHO.   
   Hopefully you have tons of repositories available!   
      
   But you will find here a lot of people pretending that recompiling    
   everything and fiddling with xml's is the only right way to heaven;-)   
      
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